by Monica A. Coleman | May 17, 2011 | Blog, Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
I didn’t plan to be a nomad. Yet in the last decade, a combination of school, work and family saw me in a new city—across the country from the previous city—every two years. While I had moving down to a science (checklists, procedures, the three day un-pack), I was...
by Monica A. Coleman | Apr 25, 2011 | Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
The headline in the electronic newsletter came was written in large font: “She’s one of us.” My favorite magazine that offers hope and harmony to people living with bipolar depressions, bphope, called attention to the recent disclosure that actress Catherine...
by Monica A. Coleman | Apr 12, 2011 | Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
My favorite slogan of the environmental movement is the edict that we should: “live simply so others can simply live.” It’s a basic truism that most of us who are living in the world’s wealthiest nations find incredibly difficult to enact. The everyday components of...
by Monica A. Coleman | Apr 5, 2011 | Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
While many individuals around the world play harmless pranks and jokes on their friends and colleagues, April first marks a different kind of celebration for me. April first marks the beginning of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. April first is also the anniversary of...
by Monica A. Coleman | Feb 16, 2011 | Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
This is part three of three parts. See part one “cry it out” and part two “falling” Human beings have long admired and envied a bird’s ability to soar through the skies. I imagine that this initiated the design of the kite, and reaches its pinnacle in space...