TL;DR – pity sucks and hurts everyone involved. Shorter read? You can skip my personal manifesto at the top and get to stuff that might help you by starting where it says, “That said, let me get a bit more academic here for others having the same problem as myself.” * * * * * … More On Pity and Why You Should Be Done With It.
TL;DR ::: Break time. Quick tips at bottom! My life has been a complete mess. I need an exercise in discipline. As such, I have decided to revisit my SOJ roots and observe Lent. I will be turning off my social media for the duration and concentrating on health, hearth, and family. I will accept … More Social media break.
Today was an 8 hour marathon. I used a browser extention to lock myself out of Facebook and then booted my manuscript into Microsoft Word. I had provided myself with a case of water and several hours of MP3s in advance. Then I sat down and started reading. Once I finished cursing myself for an … More Writing Process Post
Someone I love is now COVID-19 presumptive. To begin with this person is very scared. He is an older gent with hypertension which puts him in the highest risk bracket, and we actually know how he was exposed. He was an essential worker for the local hospital system. His life has been turned upside down. … More COVID-19: Exposure
So I am reviving this site in order to document the process and publication of my second paperback book. The first book is here – in serial form on this blog. Just put Lyme Warrior in the search bar. The second book is called: Post-Rational America. You can buy it for Kindle or in paperback … More Reviving this site!
Danielle, 16, Lyme Patient Unattributed. If you know who’s work this is let me know. It’s floating around the FB Lyme Forums.
The heroine of this Lyme story has much to share. She is an intelligent and articulate Southern Bell who hails from Atlanta, Georgia. She is 43 years old and a mother of three, whose troubles began in August of 2010, with what she thought was a “bug bite”. It turned out to be that, all … More Lyme Disease: Stories From the Front Lines of an Epidemic – Amalee
So September is Suicide Prevention Month. And people keep asking me to share Suicide memes. Sorry, no. There were two successful and two failed suicides in my circle in the past five years. Another failed suicide lives in my blood family. I was one of the failed suicides. I am also … More Why I Don’t Share Suicide Prevention Memes
The Red Cross Blood Donation Disconnect It is confusing as all get out to me that the American Red Cross, bulwark of public safety, and the biggest source of US blood donations, absolutely will not accept blood from patients who have had babesia and in the majority of states will not accept blood from people … More Lyme Disease: Stories From the Front Lines of an Epidemic – Nonfic Insert 1 – Some Lyme Paradoxes – Sam S.
(In her own words and with all relevant permissions) My name is Maggie R. I currently live in Maryland. I am 28 years old and was first diagnosed at 16. I currently live with mild chronic Lyme disease. I was 16 years old and it was the summer between my junior and senior year of … More Lyme Disease: Stories From the Front Lines of An Epidemic – Maggie R.
EVOLVING MALE 