Holidays, Now With Fibro Flare (Fibro Gone Wild)
It can be difficult to navigate holiday events during the best of times when you’re dealing with a chronic illness. When your energy levels go up and down without warning or your body just randomly says “Okay, we’re done now”. This year means...
Like A Trickle Through A Frozen Hose (Sunday Horses)
One of the benefits of being in the Ozarks is that our highs are quite often above freezing. Right now we’re running in the 40s or 50s, which isn’t bad when our overnight lows are in the 20s. That means if the water hose freezes, it will thaw by midday and...
It’s back… (cue scary music) (Fibromyalgia Gone Wild)
Last October after visiting Iowa I came home with one hell of a case of bronchitis or whatever it was. It nearly killed my grandma, and she shared with me during our visit. (This was pre-pandemic, when she didn’t want to hug because she didn’t feel well,...
Snow Horses (Sunday Horses)
I knew it’d have to happen someday. After living in Iowa for a very long time, I knew what winter weather would bring. And honestly, the first winter we moved here and I had sixty degree days while my family back in Iowa was getting snow, well it was a little...
Book Tour: The Secret Life of Miss Anna Marsh
This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions. Ella Quinn will be awarding a $25 Amazon GC to a randomly drawn winner. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour. Now available in print for the first time, USA Today...It’s Okay To Not Be Okay With Your Medical Trauma (Fibro Gone Wild)
I feel like before I dive in here, I need to provide a disclaimer. My mother was an RN. She specialized in geriatric care and was an angel to the dementia patients and other home health care patients she dealt with on a daily basis. She hated what medicine here in...
Book Tour: Christmas Cookies on a Cruise Ship
This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions. Parker Fairchild will be awarding a $25 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour. On a...
Exercising The Clarinet Muscles (Music Monday)
Reed: Rinyin 2.5 (ebay purchase) My goal for picking up my clarinet practice again was twofold. First, practice consistently. Second, get better! There was a third goal, which I didn’t realize until I started playing — get my lip and mouth muscles back. I...
Healing (Sunday Horses)
They say when we rescue an animal it heals us as much as we heal it, and while that sounds trite, it’s also very true. While my budget has taken a hit, having the two new rescue horses, Polly and Kitty Kash, here has really warmed my spirit. If nothing else,...
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