“A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.” ~E.B. White This will be the...

The decision has been made and the boxes have come out once again. For the ninth time in eight years, I am packing up my belongings to...

I should have known that it wouldn’t be so easy to leave this apartment complex. After searching for another five days, we are finding...

Somewhere in this city there HAS to be an apartment that will suit our needs! I swear that I could find a needle in a haystack easier...

Chronic Lyme Disease claims another victim. Sadly, the time has come to move out of the home that I love so much. For the past eight...

I truly didn't think that this was even possible. For a woman who is capable of writing for 12-15 hours a day, a writer who is commonly...

As I am facing this vast expanse of what to do next with my life once this convalescence is over, I am spending a lot of time reading...

With the recent anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack on our country and the ongoing battle in Afghanistan, I thought it only fitting...

This was the beautiful view on the way to the doctor in Melbourne Beach two days ago. A storm was moving in but we had a few moments to...

I never knew that when I wrote my previous post about the unconditional love of our pets that it would be only days later that our family...

If you walk into almost every household in America you will find small toys strewn about the living room, hidden in every nook and...

Just because I always write about chronic illness and how to cope with it doesn’t mean that is the only thing that I care about. This...

If you have ever tried to recover from a serious illness you may have heard the term “gray area.” While battling Chronic Lyme Disease...

Numbers can be pretty important in our lives, especially when we are on vacation in Las Vegas! On a more practical note, we use numbers...

I find it hard to believe that it is August 18th already and the summer will soon be over. Living in the south, the temperatures remain...

*****Warning: If you are easily “grossed out” by photos of a PICC line in someone’s arm or you do not want to see what a line looks like...

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words… It is time to start healing and blaze a new trail. Now if my heart rate and blood pressure...

I have noticed that a lot of people who use search engines that end up on my site are looking for information about PICC lines. This...

For those of you who follow my blog, you already know that my beloved mother is my full-time caretaker. You also know that birthdays are...

As any good blogger can tell you, we spend just as much time reading blogs as we do writing them. Before I decided to start writing about...