I am an author and public speaker. A daughter, a sister, a wife, a mother, a grandmother and a friend.  I am a guardian and conservator. I am self-employed. I am a self-publisher. I am an amateur photographer.  I am a writer. I enjoy spending weekends with my husband.  I try to help others who need. My first book is available, "Life is Like a Line: A Memoir of Moods, Medication, and Mania" (please visit my website: www.lifeislikealine.com). Educational, humorous, heart wrenching ... a family has built a life built around dysfunctional behaviors whose betrayal becomes alarming and eventually dangerous. 

The book is a sample of a symptomatic Bipolar patient "in the moment"; it is a day in the life, one day at a time.  Symptomatic and as if struck by lightening, I was able to banish thoughts of suicide, wrote and published my book.  For reasons unclear, I have been blessed.