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    My Challenge: From the Depths to the Heights
    My Challenge: From the Depths to the Heights
    My Challenge: From the Depths to the Heights
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    My Challenge: From the Depths to the Heights

    By Barb Derrick

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    Barb Derrick lived the 1980's in periods of manic heights and depressive lows. Her journey through this time of changing mood swings, undiagnosed, gives the reader an idea of her Bi-Polar life in the 1980's. before and during this time, her disease raged unabated. One can identify with her struggle as she tried to climb out of her supposedly inherited disease. Barb challenges the reader to follow her through this difficult time of yelling fits at her family to "bath-robed" dealing with her children as they guessed which "mother" would greet them each day. Does she find peace at last?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateMay 16, 2011
    ISBN9781456759681
    My Challenge: From the Depths to the Heights
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    Barb Derrick

    Barbara Derrick’s poetry is both personal and universal. Her poems resonate with the reader, helping each one see and feel more deeply the ordinary aspects of their everyday lives. Nancy Ehas, Director, Wilmington Public Library, Wilmington, Ohio Capturing the rhythms of everyday life, Barbara Derrick’s poetry expresses the beauty as well as the pathos of what it means to be human. Simple occasions and events are made unforgettable with the poetic tributes that have become her hallmark – wordsmith extraordinaire. Marla Stewart, Bookseller

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