Memorial Day weekend is over, so that means unofficial summer has arrived (even if it doesn’t feel that way on a chilly afternoon). Al and I will be traveling again soon, and I am looking forward to getting away. In preparation, I was at AAA recently and noticed a sign for TSA PreCheck®. Unbeknownst to […]

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For months, now, my gut has been unhappy. Al and I both got the flu over the winter, and ever since, I’ve been having diarrhea most days, often several times a day. This is not a new issue, and I’ve discussed it at length with my Boston Medical rheumatologist, who has explained how scleroderma affects […]

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My extremely dry eyes, due to Sjogrens Disease, have been giving me a lot of trouble of late. No matter how carefully I manage my set of eye drops to keep them moist and clear, inevitably they begin to blur within a few hours, especially when I’m writing at the computer. It is incredibly frustrating, […]

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For my birthday, a friend who knows me well gave me a copy of Sy Montgomery’s wonderful book Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell. I have a thing for turtles and their slow, measured pace through life. Back when I ran a marketing department for a small college, I used […]

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I turned 72 on Saturday. It was a birthday when I felt my age more than I would have liked. A couple of weeks ago, I aggravated an old lower back injury, trying to do more than I should have. Thought it was resolving, just a bit sore. Then on Wednesday afternoon, after I got […]

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Last Wednesday night marked the beginning of Passover, when we always host the first seder for our extended family. Al’s first cousins always host the second seder. This is a family tradition that dates back to Al’s mother and her youngest sister, who alternated hosting the two festive meals every year, when we join Jews […]

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When I am not writing about living with scleroderma or helping my clients with marketing and communications strategy, I pursue my own writing. Fiction, that is—historical fiction, in particular. Back in 2014, I began working on a novel set in World War I about a mother whose estranged daughter runs off with her beau to […]

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I didn’t realize it at the time, but at the end of December, I wrote my 700th post on this site. I launched Living with Scleroderma on January 3, 2012, and have been posting nearly every week since, with time off for good behavior when on vacation. That’s a lot of posts. While there always […]

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