Category Archives: Outdoor Fun

lost in a mental blizzard

I have been struggling lately with a feeling of paralysis. It started with the weather keeping me at home staring at a desk piled high with things to do.  Then, as the Christmas season’s s......

This little piggy went white

With the Pacific NW winters come the damp, cold rains and anyone with lupus (or other autoimmune diseases such as Scleroderma, Fibromyalgia or Rheumatoid Arthritis) knows how aggravating those w......

Hitting the Trail

I just want to follow up on the lupus walk this past weekend and send a big thank you to all who contributed, participated, coordinated and made having lupus a little more visible to the Portla......

Tomorrow-thinking and long summer days

How often have you heard others, some well-meaning and some not, say that you need to look more on the “brighter side of life”?  There is a great deal to living with lupus, or any illness, than ......

Fibromyalgia

There has been a lot of press lately about fibromyalgia (FM)- through articles in the NY Times questioning whether it exists (?!) to new TV ads highlighting women who inform the viewers of their......

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