by Kate | Apr 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
>… And they lived happily ever after?Much as I like fairytales, there is a reason we tell them to children and not adults. By the time we are grown, we know that happiness doesn’t last.I recently went to a performance of Fidgety Fairy Tales. This...
by Kate | Apr 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
>This week I started using a key turner to help me open the front door. Like most tools I use, I’m experimenting. I will know in a few weeks if it makes things easier. I am constantly reconciling with and to changes in my body. Dictionary.com...
by Kate | Apr 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
>”Sometimes I have to just give in and be sick,” I regularly tell people. They squirm in their seats. We don’t like being sick. We especially don’t like surrendering to being sick. This the 21st century, for heavens sake. We should be...
by Kate | Apr 8, 2011 | Uncategorized
>I was “out” with a bad migraine Sunday through Tuesday of this week. By out, I mean the pain was so intense I couldn’t do or think. I merely survived. Though I “resumed normal activity” on Wednesday, I am still recovering.I was planning...
by Kate | Apr 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
>”You paint your heaven or your hell and in you go.” —Nikos Kazantzakis “I reject your reality and substitute my own.” —Adam SavageOne of the things I find spectacular about human beings is our insistence on making meaning. We make models of...
by Kate | Mar 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
>I recently finished reading How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their Caregivers by Toni Barnhard.Barnhard has been living with CFID since 2001. She deals with significant fatigue and “flulike symptoms” daily. While I...
