One night after dinner, while Erin was washing the dishes, David came into the kitchen with a couple of computer disks in his hand. “Erin, I told Gabe that I would get these to him tonight, but I have a project for class that’s going to take me all night. Is there any way that […]
Tag: bipolar
Driving with Martin and Pete II
What I’d really like to hear here and in the next chapter is whether you feel like the shifts in time are too extreme or whether they work for you. If they’re confusing, please let me know that. I don’t keep doing this throughout, but at the beginning I have this sequence of a happier […]
Driving with Martin and Pete I
This is the first chapter of my novel about a single mom raising two boys, one with bipolar and one with anxiety. I want the novel to show how mental health issues often aren’t limited to one generation but are linked, one generation to the next. If this sounds like my bio, that’s because this […]
transitions
One of the wonderful things about raising exceptional children is that you don’t know what sorts of challenges you’re going to face until you come right up to them. I read somewhere when Martin was very young that there’s no use planning for your child’s future more than six months in advance, because the entire […]
The Holiday Letter, 2018
the letter that I can’t send
happy holidays
We’re coming up on the holidays now, and I’ve been reading in a number of blogs that people are already feeling some trepidation and making plans not to have the awful times they’ve experienced in the past. I’ve had really good holidays and really, really bad ones, both due to my own mental health issues […]
Elisabeth Levien 