Category Archives: Sports & Fitness
Focusing on the pieces helps me get to my big picture
It seemed like a good idea at the time.
I picked out a beautiful 2000 piece puzzle of Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany for my mom this year for Christmas. It has been years since I did one and......
North, to Seattle…go north, the walk is on!
A quick note for all of you who will be in the Seattle area on October 17th :
The LFA Pacific NW Chapter will be hosting their annual Mad Hatter Walk N Roll for Lupus event on that day at Magnus......
Book Group begins today!
We are beginning a group chat today about the book by Tina Vindum (2009) entitled Outdoor Fitness. You might wonder why, especially for us Oregonians, we are going to cover a book like this as......
A Lupus version of Spring Training Camp
I seem to always have the ideas and best intentions about managing my daily health, but living with illness is like that comedy skit done by Abbott & Costello. As it is with managing lupus, ......
Meet the Arthritis Foundation’s Oregon Branch!
After a brief absence, the OR Branch of the Arthritis Foundation returned to the area a few years ago and offers some valuable resources to everyone living with a chronic illness. I wanted to ......
sweating the small stuff
We are focusing a great deal these days on quantity – the number of foreclosures, stock market fluctuations, billions spent to help businesses who have not managed their practices by looki......
seeing red
Yesterday I attended my second week of the Living Well with Chronic Conditions workshop presented through Tuality Healthcare (in Hillsboro). This is one of the many locations and groups offerin......
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......










