Tomorrow night I board a flight in San Diego for Hartford, CT. Not far down the road, I will visit my mother for a few days, and see the rest of my family, whom I haven’t seen since Thanksgiving.

Then the business portion of my trip begins – two talks to NAMI groups in Connecticut, a day off for sight-seeing in New York, a talk to a DBSA group in New Jersey, and another talk to a DBSA group in Washington DC. In between, I’ll be squeezing in visits with old friends, getting off blogs,...