The holidays are almost upon us and if you are fighting for your life in chronic illness, it is just one more thing to do that you don’t have the energy for. Well, news flash is – don’t then. Or, do, that is entirely up to you. You get to […]
justlivinglikethis
When a friend, who worked for the foreign services department of the State Department, was stationed in Costa Rica, my husband and I were able to visit her. A beautiful country where tourism thrives, we had my sister as private tour guides for the first few days. Then as she […]
Looks Can Be Deceiving
I was just listening to a random radio DJ the other morning speak about a talk he had recently with his son. He was telling his son that “fear is a choice, but danger is real.” Wow, that resonated all day long with me. Fear was a huge part of […]
Fear is a Choice
In the United States each year we spend approximately six months sitting at traffic lights eight months opening junk mail one year searching through desk clutter two years trying to call people who are not in three years in meetings five years waiting in lines In a single day, an […]
Spending Time
Its everywhere I turn these days, more and more shocking and depressing statistics of high percentages of childhood cancer, childhood diabetes, autoimmune disorders, early onset Alzheimer’s, and cancer, cancer, cancer. Couple that with the fact that we all know someone fighting a mystery illness. We all know someone fighting cancer. […]
What I would do if diagnosed with a life threatening ...
I was recently invited to speak at a local Wichita Lyme Group and I chose to speak on HOPE. Hope is near and dear to my heart, because I fear without it, I might never had found complete healing from the wickedness of Lyme disease. The audio is amateur just […]
Finding Hope – Wichita Lyme Group Speech Sept 2016
My son is running cross country this year for the first time, so as a former runner and lover of running, we’ve had lots of interesting talks. The most interesting happened the other day, and as I’ve thought about it, these principles apply to any difficulty or strife or chronic […]
Occupying Your Mind and Finishing the Race
I’ll never get over this view being gone. It was the most serene part of my day when I commuted to work from NJ. On the beautiful picture perfect New England days, I took the ferry instead of the Path train. Crossing the Hudson from the Lakawanna port at Hoboken […]
What I Learned from 9/11
I am so guilty of this. I love to juggle, I love to multitask. I thoroughly enjoy doubling my efforts through efficiency and speed in a day. I am good at it, so good at it, that I have trouble slowing down. I have trouble with quiet. Don’t get me […]
No Hurry in Healing – Be a Pickle Instead
When you are chronically ill, time is the only thing you have in abundance. You lack strength, stamina, energy, sleep, money and sometimes friends. Time is all you have – too much of it. The clock moves slowly – tick, tock. In the wee small hours of the morning and […]