View from the Rollercoaster: Unsteady Essays & Bipolar Bylines Relationships rise and fall with the mood swings. So if you begin to operate on the assumption that the Bible is not just another dust magnet, an assumption that puts you at odds with most of the wor
| Title | : | View from the Rollercoaster: Unsteady Essays & Bipolar Bylines |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.95 (669 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 061545254X |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 70 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2011-06-10 |
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Editorial : About the Author Tracy Ebbert Revalee was drafted into the U.S. Navy at birth as the daughter of a naval aviator. Due to his career and her mother's belief that the family should live together no matter where he was stationed, Tracy attended thirteen schools before graduating at the age of seventeen. She was diagnosed with bipolar illness in her early twenties. If her childhood was chaotic, her adult life was explosive. She attended three colleges, dropped out, moved to California to write songs, moved back to Virginia and attended classes at seven colleges before earning a B.S. in Communications eighteen years after graduating from high school. Then she had her first and only child. She has held at least fifty-two jobs for varying lengths of time. She has been married four times. She has written articles for newspapers and for small magazines, including Employment Today and Richmond Review, as well as composing dozens of songs, since 1979. Tracy has been married nearly 15 years to the
King Solomon said a cheerful heart is good medicine. So if you begin to operate on the assumption that the Bible is not just another dust magnet, an assumption that puts you at odds with most of the world and then you find out you're mentally ill, a fact that puts you at odds with yourself and the rest of the world, what are you going to do? Cry? Or figure it out? In the life of a bipolar person, judgment is a matter of brain chemical roulette, emotions are not to be trusted and reason takes the last train home. Relationships rise and fall with the mood swings. It's a monster and Tracy Revalee has been battling it for decades. If you get in the rollercoaster car with her you'll get to growl back at a dog, defy your ghosts and try to interview a pig. Like any good journalist, she asks the hard questions: Where did I get that car? What is the difference between hay and straw? Why am I avoiding the mall? At the end of the day, even if you don't know all the answers, this book will point y
WBCN was a jewel of the airwaves when it started out in 1968, and bit by bit Big Business pimped it out and used it up, gradually sacrificing all sense of beauty, freedom, imagination and vitality with each new market trend and shareholders' meeting, until it was an empty, gutless carcass, and then they just kicked it to the curb and erected some other moneymaking machine in its place. Five stars, and I'd give it six if they'd let me. It does cover most of the subjects regarding winding but some subjects contain little detail. What I love most about this book is that for each subject it provides a very complete survey of the techniques and methods. The section on the derivation of thrust is full of errors. He had a know-it-all arrogant attitude that I found offensive, and I chose to do some research on the subject first. They said they actually liked it better. It's not a bad book, but it seems like I didn't need a whole book to get this information. The first section of this book disc
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