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Having to do with my mental-illness.

Psychic or Psychotic?

     As a schizophrenic and a business woman,  I had the opportunity to sit down today with David Eraker, the CEO of Mindsite, at Liberty CafĂ© in Renton.  I waited on a couch and sipped my tea while I chatted with the shop
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Misfortune at Hempfest 2008

Though I vend at Hempfest every year, this year I believe I have suffered the most unfortunate fair experience ever! Read my tale of woe and try to avoid the same fate if you also sell at fairs! Friday started out well. It was the load-in day and
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Pagan and Crazy

Originally Published in Witchvox, April 22nd, 2007. I remember meeting my first prospective High Priestess and High Priest in a coffee shop. I arrived agonizingly early, purchased a chai tea and seated myself facing the door, scrutinizing everyone who
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Advocacy and Education

The British Columbia Schizophrenia Society put on a very moving commercial about stigma. It spoke to me on many levels. My mother called and told me that she saw this on the news: "Jumpers Get Naked For Charity." Apparently on TV they showed "everything"
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A New Vision of the Dead

Through my schizophrenic hallucinations, I met a new breed of monster yesterday, and I feel that I should write about it so I don't forget it. It's not one of my animal monster types. It was kind of a spin on the classic "I see dead people" moment. The
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Would you like to read about the scary things I see in the yard?

I told my husband about the scary monsters that I hallucinate in the woods behind our back yard, and I prefaced it with "now, you're not going to think this is scary at all, but..." Now I feel validated, because he found my description spooky. Let's see
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