Walk This Way

Training for a marathon walk takes a lot more time and energy than this spoonie realized.

5 Tips for Writers Limited by a Chronic Illness

Writers with chronic illnesses, whether that’s fibromyalgia, mental health issues, ALS, multiple sclerosis, etc., often feel like we are seriously limited in our ability to produce quality work. Here are five tips to help you do what you can without using up all of your spoons.

A few last words before my blog hiatus

*Edited Dec 13 to add link to post on Bernadette Conant, CEO of Canadian Water Network. *Edited Dec 14 to add link to Editors BC blog post. Last week I talked about words we use in science communication, and tried to unpack what a lot of them mean. It wasn’t my most popular post, but…

On Annie Dillard and being a “spoonie”

It’s absolutely pouring outside. The wind is blowing the rain up against the windows as if it’s trying to get in the house, while water streams off the outside shed roofs. The bog out back is quickly filling up, and our yard has become a puddled, muddy quagmire. The sky is heavy and dark, and…

Talking About Mental Health

Note: Edited 22 Jul 2017 to add comment from Alex Riley. I’ve had some conversations about mental health lately that have made me think a lot about what it means to have a mental illness, how you navigate the world with it, and how others perceive that illness and its impact on your life. Much…