Hells Bells
- Location
- Heart of the Heart of the Country
- Birthday
- February 01
- Bio
- Book editor, parent, MFA in poetry from a land far, far, away--and a long, long time ago . . .
I'm not a psychologist, but I play one on TV.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Mom Always Liked You Best
September 19, 2011 04:53PM - First Blog, Fernsy OC
August 08, 2011 01:58PM - Dreaming of Tornadoes?
April 21, 2011 01:46PM - Not Dead Yet
March 07, 2011 04:06PM - Paint, or Fatal Flaws
January 25, 2011 02:05PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “The best thing about
that movie was that HE
CHASED
HER.”
February 15, 2012 02:19PM - “I like the light and
dark here quite a bit.”
February 09, 2012 02:07PM - “Hi, Ann! Thanks for this
post. I've got one of those
soft
splits. Also a c-pap
ma…”
February 09, 2012 02:03PM - “My own mother took care
of herself, with some
inadequate and
constantly
shifting…”
October 12, 2011 03:16PM - “I like how your early
event dovetails into current
event(s).
And I remember the
P…”
October 12, 2011 03:10PM
Hells Bells's Links
- About teaching and learning
- Why Haiku Suck and What You Should Do About It
- But Isn't It All Just Subjective Anyway?
- Oh, come on, it wouldn't kill you to read a poem
- Short Fiction
- The Passage (Sestina)
- My Mother Walks Ahead of Me
- Self-Portrait with Fox, Crow, and Fish
- Just What We Always Wanted
- The Passion of Snow
- On Adak Island
- The Accidental Poetry of Alzheimers
- The Vireo (Villanelle)
- Paint
- My Hat
- Loving the Unpoetical Midwest
- Space Within (Bridge Poem)
- The River Goes
- Filmstrip
- Memoir, or something like it
- The Amazing Plaid Bomber Jacket
- Goodbye, Bipolar Brother
- The Happiest Day of My Life
- Murder for Hire: Working for the Hit Man Publisher
- Civilly Disobedient and Proud of It on the Fourth of July
- How I Became a Poet
- Harry Harlow's Monkey Studies and Me
- Scratch the Surface, Open a Vein
- Lamborghini Murcielago vs. Honda Civic
- Charles Manson Murderers Are After Us
- The infamous bipolar child series
- Living with a Bipolar Child
- Why I Wrote the Bipolar Child Story
- The End of the Bipolar Child Story
MY BROTHER AND I, ages 8 and 11, were shocked when our parents sat us down in the living room to let us know we had an older half-sister. And what's more, that she would be coming to visit us in our suburban tri-level home, smack dab in the middle… Read full post »
Jane's expenses are next to nothing--she lives in a one-room apartment on the college campus--but even so, I know she’ll run out of money by the middle of next month, and I wonder what will happen then. Her father and I divorced many years/… Read full post »
"crow," by my daughter
I feel I should apologize to the receptionist, get up from my chair in the waiting room and say, “I’m sorry for the way she spoke to you. She’s bipolar. " Unmedicated bipolar, I think to myself.
She’s gone off on the receptionist… Read full post »
I sew. Or rather, I sewed. It's past tense these days because it's been taking all my energy to get my pants on the right way around in the morning and arrive at work on time.
When I was a teenager, all the girls sewed . . . it's… Read full post »
While going through old papers, I found these words, and it seemed to me I had found real poetry. I broke the lines for sense and breath, created the stanzas, and added titles that seemed to capture the train of thought, however broken. The words are exactly as my father wrote them--includi… Read full post »
Deborah Young blogged Study in 21st Century Teenager and, having one of those myself, I could not resist . . .
Teen dyed hair pink.
Teen displays flags of Kenya and Germany (runs cross country, studies German)
Teen leaves cross country clothes on floor. Act… Read full post »
My friend Beth went blind as a young adult, the result of complications of Type 1 diabetes. Her son, Gus, was born with a profound cognitive impairment and uses a wheelchair. So it’s pretty clear when you see them
… Read full post »Working for the Man
In March of 1993, James Perry murdered Mildred Horn, her eight-year-old quadriplegic son, and the son’s nurse. With a $2 million settlement his son had received for his injuries at stake, Horn’s ex-husband hired Perry to do the hit. Among Perry’s possessions was… Read full post »
My two teenage children have ADHD, and both have been on stimulant medication from a very young age--first grade and kindergarten, respectively. So it got my attention when I saw headlines suggesting that long-term medication doesn't work and in fact stunts children's growth.
The origin of… Read full post »
Tom Pantera mentioned the lame drug education efforts of the 70s in his very worthwhile and serious post Drug Testing Less Vital Than Drug Talking.
I couldn't resist posting this absurd drug education filmstrip, enhanced with comic voice-over.
I actually remember sitting through stuff just… Read full post »
"disloyal," by my daughter
LAST MONTH, I posted a story about what it’s like living with my bipolar child. I’m mostly a poet, and I tend to think in images and metaphors—so it was an extended metaphor about a puppy:
It's like having this beautiful puppy. And… Read full post »
In 1964, my my father took his sabbatical at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. I was in the sixth grade; my brother, the ninth.
Harry Harlow ran the primate lab in the psychology department at that time, as he had since 1956. Harlow is perhaps best known for a series… Read full post »
Photocollage by my talented bipolar child.
It's like having this beautiful puppy. And sometimes it's great being with the puppy. It climbs up into your lap, and you stroke its soft fur. It looks at you, and you can see it loves you. It even says, "I love you." And… Read full post »
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