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Amazingly enough (for me anyway) here is the second issue of Don't Think About Monkeys On-Line Magazine. Adding to the first six articles, poems and interview, is a new collection of poetry, articles, columns and reactions from our readers. We start in this issue with a new column by co-editor John. S. Hilkevich, M.A. entitled 'Therapy Approaches.' John will be writing from time to time on different aspects of Tourette Syndrome and therapy issues from the psychological perspective. John is director of Intergrated Counseling Services, in New Jersey, and is completing his Ph.D. in clinical psychology. This issue he suggests the need for a therapy advocate, a position filled in part by the many volunteers in the Tourette Syndrome Association, but more professionally oriented. 'Reactions' is our letters from our readers emails and snail-mails! This page will include a sample of our mailbag, both emails to the magazine and comments from the Echolalia Press evaluation form. If you haven't filled out an evaluation form yet, look for the link to it and take a minute to do so now -- this feedback helps us improve the design of both our site and our on-line magazine. Laurie B. Rosenblum, M.P.H., a medical writer who organized the first Movement Theater workshop at Houston's Tourette Syndrome Association Conference in 1993, offers some ideas on what the benefits of this art-form have been for her. She also contributes two poems to this issue. Michael Chapman's journal will be a regular new feature in Don't Think About Monkeys On-Line Magazine. This 15 year old started his Journal shortly before his diagnosis with TS, and he offers a counterpoint to John Hilkevich's therapy approaches column: This journal is from the TS patients perspective. As our fourth teenage contributor, Michael joins our three fourteen year old writers from the first volume of the book series. Forth-coming in October is a three way collaboration. Molly Jayne Schaefer is the youngest writer we have published. Her poem, the letter from her mother Helen Schaefer, and my story of how it arrived from TSA in New York make for a short but very important collaboration. We would love to hear from more children with Tourette Syndrome: We also would love to see your artwork. If you submit an article, poem or drawing, make sure you keep your original copy. We try to keep track of everything but every writer has 'lost' something in the mail! (Not just paychecks :-) Putting together this issue of Monkeys has been a dream come true for John and me, taking our original vision of a reader by people with TS, creating a magazine sequel and having a second issue out eight months later. Four of the above articles are on-line as you read this, others will be later this week, and in 60 days our third issue will appear. The second book version of Don't Think About Monkeys will include some of this on-line material but we will also have many articles written especially for the second volume. If you haven't read the first book, please consider ordering a copy from Echolalia or Hope Press: We pay our on-line magazine writers a percentage of our overall sales -- support your local Tourette Internet artists!
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