The Love that Gets Us Through
Musing about love in my latest MyRACentral post: “Love is all you need. – The Beatles Comfort. It can be hard to come by in the times when pain has invaded your body, occupying it like a foreign army. It can make you feel excruciatingly alone, because pain is, at its root, something you cannot…
The Cure
To celebrate the Feast of St. Brigid or Imbolc, the Fifth Annual Blogger (Silent) Poetry Reading is happening all over. Last week, Nairn Galvin left a poem in the comment box on my Grief post and it’s so beautiful and so right that I’m reposting it here (Nairn – if you have a blog, please…
Claire
Almost all of us have one. Someone we grew up with, were friends with since forever. Someone who knows us better than anyone else because they were there during the hard years, the good times and the really awkward teenage years. Someone who’ll keep your secrets, the person you can call in the middle of…
Wonder Drugs for the Wonder Cat
About 10 days ago, Mojo the Wonder Cat had her first chemo treatment and it went remarkably well. We thought. Due to a miscommunication – because Mercury is retrograde after all and boy, has that ever packed a punch this time around – I didn’t fast her, which means she couldn’t get sedated for the…
The Tale of the Muffins
Yesterday, it was David’s birthday and before I go on, I’ll take it brief pause to allow you to sing misc. birthday songs in the comment box, should you be so inclined That was lovely. Well, except for the one that was as off-key as my own rendition. Still, it’s about the enthusiasm with which…
11 Things You Should Know about RA
This month, we’re going back to basics on MyRACentral: “1. We Don’t Know What Causes Rheumatoid ArthritisThese days, much more is known about RA, especially the process that leads to developing the disease – a combination of a genetic predisposition, abnormally autoimmune response and environmental or biologic triggers. However, how it all comes together and…
A Matter of Perspective
When I was younger, I kept a diary. Or journal – is there a difference? Do they just call it journaling to make it sound less adolescent so adults can do it, too? Regardless, it’s what I did. I had a shelf near my dining room table where there were books and books of my…
Book Review: Under the Dome
It took me almost 4 weeks, but I’ve finished Stephen King’s doorstep latest novel Under the Dome: A Novel (and then it took me an additional four weeks to get around to writing a review – what can I say, December was a little nuts). A whopper at 1,100 pages – which translates into 34.5…
Would You be Blue?
Like so many others, I am fairly fresh from seeing Avatar and aside from wanting to see it again and preferably on a bigger screen and in 3-D, it made me think. Particularlythe part about Jake, the paralyzed protagonist who is given the chance to use his body again in a 10-foot tall blue-skinned avatar…
You Never Know
“I can’t do a New Year’s post this year, it’ll sound like I’m bragging.” This is what I said earlier this week, heavily influenced by that Danish-Canadian thing about not tooting your own horn overmuch (and perhaps a little by the fear that if I say something out loud, it’ll jinx it). At New Year’s…
Looking Forward
It’s time to reflect on MyRACentral: “Have you decided what’s wrong with you yet? After all, it’s what making resolutions is all about, isn’t it? To review your life, to find it wanting, to pick it apart and identify areas of dissatisfaction and is it any wonder so many of us get depressed around New…