Yearly Archives: 2010

Happy New Year!

Wishing you all a wonderful, adventurous and peace-filled 2011~

Holding onto the little things to fuel our tomorrows

As I begin to close my 2010 and prepare for a new one, I look back over the tumultuous last three months with a heavy heart. In fact, I went through pictures from holiday seasons past this year......

Moving away from stuffing feelings and more towards stocking stuffers

Every now and then, I will come across something that is so simple yet so powerful that it astounds me.  It is easy to get carried away and overwhelmed with the holiday season.  It seems like e......

Season of “Family”

The month of November officially begins, what I call, my “Season of Family.” Besides the usual holiday hooplah and the mounting stress that accompanies it all, this is the time when ......

♫ One of these things is not like the other…one of these things just doesn’t belong… ♫

Aviva, who authors the blog Sick Momma,  is hosting PFAM (Patients For A Moment) Blog Carnival this coming Wednesday, November 10th.  Her theme was to have people contribute their experiences, c......

Integrative Care and Autoimmune Disease~ A Community presentation

Here’s a note from the Oregon Chapter of the Scleroderma Foundation regarding their upcoming Portland-area support group meeting on November 13th: “Guest speaker at the next Scleroderma Support ......

Happy Halloween!

The minute I saw him incubating in the garden, I knew I had to bring him to life.  What I didn’t know is that this little guy was harboring his own secret…just like me. What began a......

Fear and Healing~ Guest Sarah Nuxoll

  I got a wake-up call this summer with regard to my health. I have cystic fibrosis, which entails a whole routine of treatments and medications that basically manage my disease.  But this summ......

World Arthritis Day~ Do Blue!

Today, the internet is all abuzz over anything regarding Arthritis.  If you are on Twitter,  there is a “Twitter Party” going on where you can submit questions to the Arthritis Foun......

Got Headaches?

Our MLWT Book discussion group is taking on “All in My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure An Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache” by Paula Kamen (Da Capo Press, 2......