My Weekly Routine

The Wednesday What: What Brings You Strength?

Today was a beau­ti­ful day. (Made love­lier by the local boy’s win on Amer­i­can Idol.) And on days like this I am try­ing to develop the habit of think­ing back to a tough day, week, or month, and giv­ing thanks for the things and peo­ple that helped me get from there to a lovely […]


K8">Monday Night Dinner 004: Getting to Know K8

I never do this sort of thing, but I real­ized this would be a fun way for you to get to know me, beyond the fibro and fibro-related bits of my life.  And, it has an 8 in it, like K8.  And my friend Rochelle, of Learn­ing to Trust, rec­om­mended I give it a shot.
8 Things […]


Monday Night Dinner 002

It’s been entirely too long.  Please accept my apol­ogy.  Between being sick, work­ing, and plan­ning for my “hon­ey­moon” I feel like I’ve had absolutely noth­ing going on in my brain by the time I sit down to write.  And, to be hon­est, los­ing my 1200 word post a few weeks back left me feel­ing unmotivated.  […]


My Weekly Routine: Monday Night Dinner 001

Mon­day nights are mag­i­cal in my neck of the woods.  My par­ents host a “Mon­day Night Din­ner” group that con­sists of a tod­dler, seven folks of my gen­er­a­tion, and my gen­er­ous par­ents.  Other folks join us, on occa­sion, but none are as con­sis­tent as the stan­dard nine.  We decide on the menu a week in […]


Fibromyalgia and Migraines, Part 1

So, part of new weekly rou­tine has got to go.  It’s a once a week thing.  It was never planned.  And I cer­tainly never invited it.  Each week I renew my resolve to ditch the rou­tine.  And each week I for­get to remem­ber to ditch the rou­tine for the days in between.  But that’s over […]