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tiramisu — Over the years, I’ve finally begun to learn how to pick my battles. Especially after getting married and having kids, right? I am persistant and opinionated by nature and tend to get passionate about just about everything I am passionate about. I tend to carry around a portable “soapbox” with […]

Don’t Get Between a Girl and her Tiramisu

21 Nov, 2014 in Uncategorized by justlivinglikethis

There is nothing more exhilerating after years battling health and getting no answers than feeling personally empowered to succeed. I used to feel so helpless. Our family was “duct-taped” together with a myriad of health issues that had no names, just a quagmire of stuff that kept us “messy”. I […]

Steps to Getting Empowered in your Health

18 Nov, 2014 in Uncategorized by justlivinglikethis

Glenn-Beck-reveals-illness-screen-cap-800x430 — I cried with your tears. I see the fear you have grappled with and still fight to subdue written on your face. I have seen it because my own reflection has shown me the same. The answers to your mysteries were hard to find and still left you wanting more […]

Thank you Glenn Beck,

17 Nov, 2014 in Uncategorized by justlivinglikethis

broken heart — I am a woman who has seen affliction…… That’s what resonates in my soul this year. We had climbed out of a pit and two of us got knocked back down. I have suffered, I have neglected, I have been absent from important times. Unable to function at times throws […]

I am not BROKEN.

16 Nov, 2014 in Uncategorized by justlivinglikethis

hard hit football — There I was minding my own business, healed from Lyme, starting to run again, acheiving my before sick weight again, working, taking kids to school activities, going on field trips and WHAM! I took a hit from behind. Isn’t that how it happened to you? You weren’t out looking for […]

Minding My Own Business

14 Nov, 2014 in Uncategorized by justlivinglikethis

roller-coaster — Why on earth does it feel like some days you are cruising along and then WHAM, you are knocked back down again? Why does it feel like you got hit by a freight train and all you did was plan your child’s birthday party? I have a very wise doctor […]

Rollercoaster of Lyme – 60% functional

30 Oct, 2014 in Uncategorized by justlivinglikethis

Bizarro World — If you are a Superman Comic fan then you would well be familiar with a place called Bizarro World where the opposite of things can happen. A place where bad things are good and good things are bad. If you are not a comic officianado, then maybe a few decades […]

Bizarro World

29 Oct, 2014 in Uncategorized by justlivinglikethis

Tucson-mold-remediation-company — We were exposed to mold at a out of town trip a few years ago. It wreaked havoc on 3 out of 4 of us. It took thousands of dollars and months of treatment to get back to “normal”. What it also did was to spur us to investigate our […]

What’s Mold Got to Do with It? (The VCS contrast ...

22 Oct, 2014 in Uncategorized by justlivinglikethis

The fear mongering has reached a new epidemic with this “Ebola crisis”. I just don’t get the media and how they triage information. They don’t pick the epdemic that is killing more people each year, in fact they don’t even report on it with fluency or facts. They are looking […]

Why I’m not Afraid of Ebola

21 Oct, 2014 in Uncategorized by justlivinglikethis

RoseMarieLaughing copy — I know I’ve talked before about the courage of a lioness and I’ve probably mentioned Rose, but have I told you the kind of courage her spirit possesses? I spent endless hours with Rose when I was sick. She is a widow and retired (although her social schedule is busier […]

Take Courage from a “Rose”

20 Oct, 2014 in Uncategorized by justlivinglikethis