My interesting life: I'm not dead yet

Wrote in Response to Brian Head Welch's comment about Chester Bennington's suicide.  Written in emotion.  Please excuse mistakes.  By Rebecca Basley My heart is very heavy today. Not only am I mourning the loss of a very talented musician who lost his life to a horrible “disease” called depression that caused him to take his own life. I also have had to witness the backlash. The backlash of people who feel they have a right to judge him and his decisions and to see how this attack is affecting people, especially young people who like Chester and like myself, live with mental illness. First off, not all of us experience mental illness the same way. Just because your fight with mental illness never resulted in your desire to take your life doesn’t mean that this is the same for everyone else. For whatever reason, you had the wherewithal to fight off the tendency toward suicide does NOT give you the right to judge someone who has. According to the CD...

The very first thing I have to say is being a mom is the best job I ever had. Being the mom of an artist makes it that much sweeter and alot more fun.   This is my fun look at my life as an mom of an artist.  I've not only noticed this in my daughter but in some of her artist friends as well.  Here are 10 interesting things I have found along the way: 1.  Scattered brained much? My daughter and her artistic friends are so busy creating in their heads that other stuff gets lost in the shuffle. I am an expert at frantic phone calls because she forgot to bring this or that. 1a.  There is never a pocketbook big enough. It's amazing what finds it's way in my purse. At any given time I have extra pencils, Erasers (3 different types) her pens and for awhile I carried around a huge rolls of duct tape. If she could fit a an extra sketch book in there... 2.  Zoning When she is in the 'zone', a nuclear war head can strike next to them and they will not noti...

Honestly when I initially heard all this power of positive thinking jazz I thought it was bullshit. In fact, my friend in high school used to talk to me all the time about "PMA" a (positive mental attitude) and even though she was one of the most friendly and easy going friends I had.. even though she had challenged like most teenagers that girl had a peaceful air about her..( that made her seem like a partial alien to me at times) and when she set her mind to a goal no matter what it was she accomplished it.  Yet I still scoffed and made fun of her PMA. Fast forward to last year, well no, it all started with spending the day and then going to a party but an awesome man and his family (David P Smith). There was such a good vibe around him and later at the party with all of his friends that (even though it took me awhile and I fought it) began my daughter and my journey to accept the power of positive thinking. We made friends at his party who have become very important to u...