Tracy Thompson:
Life/Works/Strange Results
sisterhood is powerful. motherhood is nuclear.People say that kids will drive you crazy. But what if you're already there? What if, even on your good days, that mental hurricane known by the namby-pamby word "depression" is closer than your nearest 7-11? That's me. And, from doing some research on the subject in my latest book, The Ghost in the House, this describes a lot of you, too. I'm a writer and journalist who used to have grand ambitions about saving the world. These days, my biggest ambition is to take a pee without some donkey kid trying to pick the lock on the bathroom door. The best way to describe the transition between my crusading journalist days and the way my life is now is to say it was kind of like a spectacle I remember from my Georgia childhood, when my dad tried to feed kudzu through the hay baler. Neither the kudzu nor the hay baler were ever the same. Okay, some details: I am the mother of two high-maintenance divas, ages 9 and 5. Both managed to suck up all the available "good looks" genes in their assigned DNA pool, as well as the best skills from me and my husband--which makes them beautiful and highly verbal (the older one talks at high volume; the younger one chatters like a parrot on peyote.) This is good, actually. They could've gotten my math skills and my husband's flair for interior decorating. (I can barely make change, and as for my husband--well, let's just say he saw nothing wrong with that orange shag carpet.) So motherhood has transformed me--and now I'm trying to return the favor. One way is to break the taboo of talking about motherhood and mental illness, which is what my latest book is about (it'll be out in August, but you can order it now). Still, my life is about so much more than mental illness, so herein you will find links to my favorite blogs and websites, as well as my own assorted observations and insights (some banal, some brilliant--hell, I never know what to expect myself) about life, politics and those highly amusing and frequently annoying small people who live in my house. Welcome to my world.  |
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