Even as I write this, I am sitting on an airplane. Sometimes the urge to write overwhelms me, and I just cant resist. So here I am,...

During the two years that I was studying for my masters degree, I would meet two of my closest friends every Sunday morning at a local...

During the two years that I was studying for my masters degree, I would meet two of my closest friends every Sunday morning at a local...

During the two years that I was studying for my masters degree, I would meet two of my closest friends every Sunday morning at a local...

Man, it has been one ROUGH week. I had a great weekend last weekend. I spent it with my cousins – their grandparents and aunt (and her...

Thanks goes to Birdie Nelson at ChronicBabe Forum for passing along this letter. In the spirit of informing those who wish to understand,...

Pain is a funny thing. It pervades our daily existence more than we might realize. We talk about physical aches and pains like headaches,...

I just got back from an appointment with my rheumatologist. He adavanced the prednisone taper a little. Yay! The rest of the news wasn’t...

Grey’s Anatomy has been a favorite guilty pleasure of mine since the show first aired, but lately I’ve been getting more and more bored...

You know, I spend a lot of time venting about the people out there who make rude comments out of ignorance (cases in point: rant 1 and...

So I went to the salon yesterday. I wanted to get my eyebrows threaded. No big deal. <15 minutes in and out. I was excited. It was the...

So it’s spring break week. The entire point of spring break is to go out and have fun and relax right? Not for me. I get to spend my...

This post was featured in [ChronicBabe Blog Carnival #3: Learning to Live With Pain]. If you walk into the hospital room of a child with...

This blog was inspired by a post by Leslie on her blog, Getting Closer to Myself, called “Time Is A Luxury We Don’t Have.” Thank you for...

If there’s one thing that lupus teaches you, it’s that. It stops you from doing the exercise you want, it keeps you from the Peace Corps,...

Now, as much as I know that my doctor is my ally, I have to say I’m dreading my appointment on Tuesday. The methotrexate hasn’t kicked in...

In theory, it’s a nice sentiment, right? But if you’re fighting a chronic disease, it really doesn’t work that way. It seems to me that...

I had a rheumatologist appointment yesterday. Things were not going well. My prednisone taper had me feeling great in February, but then...

Today was one of those days. You know the kind. Those days when you know the smart thing to do is to stay in bed, but you have important...