Today’s WEGO Health challenge is to come up with a mascot for your medical condition / health focus. At first I thought ‘a mascot? Seriously?’, but then I realized… I already have one. It’s true. I have a mascot. It lives in my pocket most days. It’s my pebble. It is a very lovely pebble. [...]
::Sorry, this didn’t post as planned on the 14th. This past week, we said goodbye to GreatNana, we temporarily acquired two hamsters and two rats while friends are on vacation, and then half the family got sick with the nastiest cold we’ve seen yet this season. I just haven’t had the energy for tending to [...]
I high hopes of being able to sustain a daily post for the WEGO Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge, but here we are on Day 13 and I have already missed several days of writing. Living with a pebble often means that I have to readjust my plans and take on only the highest priority [...]
Today’s WEGO health blog challenge is to invent your own “Keep calm and carry on” poster. My all-time favourite is the one created by my sister: It makes me smile every time I look at it — the sort of smile that has your mouth turning upwards and your eyes crinkling at the corners and other [...]
Today’s challenge is to write a health-related haiku poem that is a sort of meditation. Huh. I don’t normally shy away from writing poetry, and we do love reading poems around here, but haiku? I have never gotten the hang of haiku. So… here goes nothin’… Laughing children run Twirling ’round a pain-filled Spring Welcome [...]
The WEGO health challenge prompt for day 3 was about superheroes, and I had taken a lovely photograph of a Spiderman blanket hanging on our laundry line with a beautiful blue sky floating high above it and a thousand possibilities running through my head about what kind of superhero I would wish to be. Shortly [...]
I’ve always adored this one particular quote: Imagination is more powerful than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. ~Albert Einstein As a child, I was constantly losing myself in imaginary worlds and, in my not so humble 10 year old opinion, anyone who valued imagination over knowledge had to be pretty smart. (I [...]
This month, I’m going to be blogging a lot about living with a pebble as a contributing writer for the Wego Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge. Every day in April, Wego is providing a talk prompt to get us writing and talking about health. I’ll still be posting my usual assortment of content too, so [...]
A few years ago, I wrote a piece for Invisible Illness Week based on a meme about living with invisible illness. To my great surprise, it struck a note with people, and it made a bit of noise at the time. So much noise, in fact, that I was contacted about having the piece read [...]
Winter is all around us now, and I find myself taking great joy in simple pleasures. The snow lies thick and heavy on the ground, and I love the way it reflects the moonlight and chases away the night’s shadows. The air smells clean and crisp, and the kids come inside after happy hours playing [...]
