The World's Most Precious Resource

A wonderful thing happened last year. I got a contract to write a book: a payment up front, a year to write it, an editor, a marketing team — the works. I write with my mother, a community psychologist and positive parenting guru — so I hit the ground running when I started my mothering career fifteen years ago.

The Interest-Based Nervous System

"Almost every one of my patients and their families want to drop the term Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder," writes William Dodson, M.D., "because it describes the opposite of what they experience every moment of their lives. It is hard to call something a disorder when it imparts many positives. ADHD is not a damaged or defective nervous system. It is a nervous system that works well using its own set of rules."

"Mana" from Heaven

Okay, this first post is a little gross, apologies.

I had a heated argument with a game hunter on Kauai last weekend about whether or not the ancient Hawaiian kings were honored in death by being roasted or boiled.

In the 1500 years the Hawaiian people lived on the unspoiled islands, there had probably been time to try all practices, I suggested. He said he'd visited and even discovered undisturbed caves where kings had been entombed. It was all about their bones, which they believed to contain their mana.

Mana is power of the essential variety. It's kind of like how Native Americans of all tribes refer to a person's gifts as their personal medicine.  Wikipedia says this about mana: "in anthropological discourse, mana as a generalized concept ... has commonly been interpreted as "the stuff of which magic is formed," as well as the substance of which souls are made."

The substance of which souls are made. The spark of the divine. 

Do you suppose mana might be the Hawaiian word for awesomeness? It's something you can feel in your bones.

What If There Really Were Two Paths?

Just while I'm thinking about how to kick this blog off, someone sends me this:

The world needs you to stop being boring. Right?

Because ADHD.blogspot.com Was Taken...

It's only appropriate that my first post should honor the owners of both ADD.blotspot.com and ADHD.blogspot.com.

ADD.blogspot.com is owned by "Asa Spade" (cool name) and is titled, "IDEAS FOR D&D CAMPAIGNS." It was last updated in April, 2002.

And meet April, who posted for the first and last time in March, 2003 on ADHD.blogspot.com:

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 2003

lalalalalalalalala!!! i wonder if i should do the talent show?