Muted Lunacy

Information is good. As I find informative articles about things close to my life and my heart I post them here. Click a link on the left under the “Essays Main” category heading to read what I’ve got so far.

(Disclaimer: None of these essays were written by me. Originating authors, as known, are noted at the end of the essays.)

First off, there are those who are reading this who might not know which camp they fall into, the extrovert or the introvert. Chances are, the majority of those reading this will know, but for those who don’t, let’s define those two terms here very broadly.
Extroverts tend to be those who are more energized when [...]

By nature, women generally have instinctive needs to raise and nurture children. The fulfillment of these needs is natural and healthy. Emotional abuse occurs only when the mother attempts to use the child or teen to fulfill needs which are not consistent with those of an emotionally healthy adult. Emotional abuse occurs, in other words, [...]

I am a self-abuser, self-mutilator, self-harmer. Whatever label you give my behaviour, I use a razor blade as a coping strategy. The first time I cut myself, I was 15. My life had been shattered by the bullying I experienced at school. Most of the taunts were related to my acne - I was known [...]

I’m about to take up a position which is going to be deemed by some, if not all, as a terrible stand to take. As a matter of fact, if anyone were to agree with me on the subject, I’d be surprised. For you see, rather than arguing from the position of suicide being an [...]

Jerry Garcia may be dead, but many Deadheads are on a new “long strange trip” for alternative communities. The sheer number of tourheads at the Bread and Puppet Theater’s Domestic Resurrection Circus in Glover, Vermont last month led me to wonder if they wanted to join in or take over. Since Garcia’s death a little [...]