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......