This site evolved from a previous site called Pendulum Parenting which was specifically written as more of a support site for people who were working through issues with mental illness while parenting children. I eventually found the format too narrow and oppressive to keep up with and abandoned it. I maintained an interest in writing, however, and decided that a new domain that more accurately reflected my identity and not one small part of it would better serve me in the long run. I started lunasmom.com so I could write about anything that struck my peculiar fancy, but with my personalized stamp.

In a sense it is a form of therapy because I have to make a commitment to do something I “sort of” enjoy and nurture it to turn it into something in which I take a real vested interest and can grow to love. My depressions have often smothered the germ of previous ideas, and I finally decided that the only way that I was ever going to get out of the slump was to treat these hobbies and interest as part of an action plan.

So here I am.