Category Archives: Creativity

Our Voices for Lupus Awareness Month: A Gift from Doug

Lupus the Entity… As the year moves into spring of 2009 and I consider the fleeting moments of time, I think about my friend living with Lupus and how much I appreciate her moments of heal......

Our Voices For Lupus Awareness Month: Christine’s Story

“What does lupus mean to me?” That seems like a simple question, and yet answering it is something many of us struggle with on a daily basis. Our lives are busy, filled with activiti......

Our Call for Voices

May is National Lupus Awareness Month, which means we will be hearing a great deal from the organizations, foundations and associations encouraging us to help educate our communities.  Although ......

Finding Beauty within the beast

This weekend, I decided to kick back and enjoy some light reading.  As usual, I had a stack of materials built up and on top was the February 2009 issue of Oprah Magazine.  I have mentioned befo......

Here’s a huge chunk of scary

I just realized that the week is over already and I still have six secrets to uncover, so I’m going to group the next three because they are all based on the primal response I’m tryi......

here we go gang!

I was doing just fine stalking blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and so forth trying to avoid committing to some changes myself until my friend Christine  caught on to what I was up to.She invited ̵......

Making your list and checking it twice

Generally, approaches to coping during illness (lupus or other chronic illnesses) are individually-focused.  The premise is that we are the only ones we can control.  Control, realistically bein......

Sorry, we have a weak connection…

I was gently (?) pushed into blogging this year to begin my sincere efforts in creating a local lupus forum that celebrates our ability to live with lupus here in the PNW on our terms.  I have t......

let the festivities begin?!

In an attempt to get my holiday season (and health) to resemble something of a celebration this year, I looked to one of my favorite sources to cut to the organizing chase:  Julie Morgenstern......

quite an honor and in great company

After losing internet connection for FOUR days, I am back trying to catch up with your emails about Fall events and DM’s on Twitter, Facebook and MySpace.  I have to admit there were a fe......

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