Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Wed, Jul 11 2007
Marjorie-Diehl Armstrong
I can see all kinds of lessons in the case(s) involving Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong. A caution against forming stereotypes concerning class valedictorians comes to mind first, followed by the notion that one never knows when one might meet an old classmate on the opposite side of the law.
Other thoughts that come to mind include the fact that having a high IQ and earning multiple graduate degrees are not guarantees against experiencing bipolar disorder or mental illness. Neither do such advantages guarantee safety from abusive people, criminals, violence and incarceration. And in the particular case of Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, there is always one more little favor she asks for and always one more deal she wants to make, as she tries to improve her sad situation by reaching out to the media. Wanting total control over one's own life is probably a demon almost every human has to face. Learning that we can't have total control and learning how to cope with that fact separates people into two or three general groups, one of which is the hellish group that Ms. Armstrong finds herself living in. I'm glad it's not my job to sort these things out, when so many lives and relationships seem to have been destroyed over the course of her intelligent, but unfulfilled, life.
posted at: 10:48 | category: /Miscellaneous | link to this entry
I can see all kinds of lessons in the case(s) involving Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong. A caution against forming stereotypes concerning class valedictorians comes to mind first, followed by the notion that one never knows when one might meet an old classmate on the opposite side of the law.
Other thoughts that come to mind include the fact that having a high IQ and earning multiple graduate degrees are not guarantees against experiencing bipolar disorder or mental illness. Neither do such advantages guarantee safety from abusive people, criminals, violence and incarceration. And in the particular case of Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, there is always one more little favor she asks for and always one more deal she wants to make, as she tries to improve her sad situation by reaching out to the media. Wanting total control over one's own life is probably a demon almost every human has to face. Learning that we can't have total control and learning how to cope with that fact separates people into two or three general groups, one of which is the hellish group that Ms. Armstrong finds herself living in. I'm glad it's not my job to sort these things out, when so many lives and relationships seem to have been destroyed over the course of her intelligent, but unfulfilled, life.
posted at: 10:48 | category: /Miscellaneous | link to this entry
