by Kate | May 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
>”I hope you remain in good spirits,” wrote my friend in the last line of his e-mail. “Ha!” my monster-mind replied. “In order to remain in good spirits I have to be in good spirits in the first place. How long has it been since...
by Kate | May 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
>I am in the midst of an art experiment and loving it. I was asked to find artists to show their work in our church’s small gallery between May and August. Our theme this summer (not chosen by me) is hope. I was unable to find anyone to use the gallery in May. A...
by Kate | Apr 16, 2010 | Uncategorized
>In the last few weeks, I have come very close to giving up. Completely. Turn my face to the wall and wait to die. I have managed to change my mind, but it has taken work.It was a tough winter. I spent the first week of December in the hospital and the following six...
by Kate | Oct 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
>When I was in sixth grade, I made a papier-mâché globe, glued garbage to it and used it as a visual aid for a “save the Earth” oral report. A few years before that, my Brownie troop painted metal drums and put them around town to encourage people not to...
by Kate | Sep 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
>Recently, I read an article By Teresa Smith, Canwest News Service, showing a possible genetic link between mental illness and creativity.I was most struck by a comment by Nigel Bart, a creative man with schizophrenia interviewed for the article. “When someone...
by Kate | Aug 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
>A letter to my representatives:Request: Healthcare reform that provides a real safety net (a government option) “…the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the...
