Ben Bradlee has died at the ripe old age of 93 years. You can read the Washington Post obituary here. He was an icon of journalism and a tradition of […]

 For the last several years New Year’s Day has been my favorite holiday. Far eclipsing the “favorite days” of my youth, the older I’ve gotten the more I’ve valued the […]

I wrote at the end of September that my insurance company had hung me out to dry regarding a possible new drug protocol to treat my delightful Multiple Sclerosis. You […]

I’ve been writing this little bloglet for the last three years (and can we all briefly say, “Holy crap! Where did the time go?!”). Kind folks who’ve been reading during […]

One of my very favorite films of all time is A Christmas Story. If you’ve never seen this movie I can only assume that you’re newly escaped from a Turner […]

My grade school friend Jacque Sue (Rawson) Waller will be buried tomorrow, June 8, 2013. This, after her family, friends and many complete strangers spent thousands of literal hours searching […]

I am one of between 250,000 and 350,000 people in the United States living with Multiple Sclerosis. It’s hard to say specifically how many people have MS because it is often misdiagnosed […]

Part 1: Medical Speak vs. Joe Q. Public, and the Value of Professional Cat Herders There are certain things in life that we know. These are the “known knowns,” as […]

It’s always an interesting development in life when a person finds themselves considering that which they’d previously believed impossible. We all perceive our paths will follow, at least loosely, an […]

When I was a little girl, Halloween was my favorite day of the year. A day that literally required I pretend to be someone/something else, at least for a little […]