Lyme is so overwhelming. It seems like I've been in a bubble full of pain, fatigue, restlessness, and distraction for 18 months. So many days, if I didn't think I was going to die, I wanted to. Last summer was the worst. I had great...
There is no escaping it really. Sometimes you just have to rest. If you choose to push through and force yourself to keep going after your body clearly tells you that you need rest, at some point you have no more options. Bodies break down....
Some municipalities have rules about dog soiling, but even if mine does, I live in a clearing in the woods. I could ignore any rules about cleaning up after my dog. I have Peking ducks too and boy, do they leave a trail. Last year, we...
The presidential election is not until November. NH's first in the nation primary was in February, but the fervour started before 2015. Rumblings and discussions about who would run, who wouldn't, and what the implications are have engaged millions of people for innumerable hours. There...
Lyme hits some people suddenly. For others years of undiagnosed health deficiencies; pain, fatigue, weakness, headaches, stomach problems, skin problems, fevers, tremors, paralysis, and more might be experienced. In time it becomes difficult to hold hope up before us. Either way, Lyme is devastating. The losses are...
We all have bad days. Overcoming a bad day isn't easy. The kind of day that starts off with missing an alarm, awakening to a kinked neck, stumbling out of bed to find that someone else is in the bathroom...
A bunch of my friends are asking, "Should women be accountable if they abort their children?" This isn't a sound-bite type of question. Let's unpack it.First of all, if the law recognized preborn babies as persons with the human rights afforded all other persons, abortion...
I think everyone, at one time or another, feels broken. Lymies feel broken almost all the time. Even if we're feeling relatively good, we know the potential for relapse. Child sexual abuse (CSA) survivors and trafficking survivors feel broken too. It takes great, focused effort...
Some people call it, "paying it forward". Others are legitimately paying restitution, literally giving back what was stolen. Still, some have an internal desire to do good and share.I have been spending a lot of time with the Scriptures because I'm studying for a project....
Our family has seen generations conceived in violence. My mom was a 15-year-old virgin from a small town in 1966. That spring she was violently raped. He told her he'd ruined her and no one else would want her. She believed him. He convinced her...