meditation and disease management Archives - Living with Scleroderma

High Wind Warning

Evelyn Herwitz — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 13:00:16 +0000

Monday morning. I awake to wind, rushing and subsiding, like an angry tide. A quick check of the weather forecast on my phone reveals high wind warnings all day, with gusts over 50 miles per hour throughout the afternoon. I have to drive into Boston for an evening class. I imagine a tiring commute, fighting […]

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Beta Test

Evelyn Herwitz — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 12:00:46 +0000

This summer, I’m in charge of Emily’s fish. He’s a cobalt blue Beta named Stitch, and he lives in a large glass bowl on our living room mantel, our little guest while Em’s away at an internship for her master’s degree program. So far, I’ve succeeding in keeping him alive. This is remarkable, because when […]

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Wake-Up Call

Evelyn Herwitz — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 13:00:39 +0000

I tried an experiment this morning: Eat a bowl of oatmeal and craisins without doing anything else—no writing, no reading, no New York Times crossword puzzle, no checking email or Facebook or surfing the web on my iPhone, no planning the week’s menus or my work schedule. Just focus on my breakfast. This proved a […]

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Busy-ness

Evelyn Herwitz — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:00:53 +0000

When did being busy become the equivalent of being virtuous? Nearly every day, I find myself in some kind of conversation about how busy we are—working, caring for family, solving one kind of problem or another. Especially among women, how well you can multi-task, juggling a job, childcare, other family duties, care for aging parents, […]

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Get a Grip

Evelyn Herwitz — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:00:22 +0000

Last week, a small, black dot appeared in my right eye. No matter which way I looked, the dot moved with my eye, right in my line of sight. I figured it was a floater, one of those annoying little bits of vitreous gel that break away from your retina as you age, liquify and […]

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Smelling in the Present Moment

Evelyn Herwitz — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:00:53 +0000

Our golden retriever, Ginger, may be going on 14, but her sense of smell is still in tact. Whenever we go for a walk, she leads with her snout close to the ground, sniffing every leaf and lamppost, inhaling dank secrets. Which has me musing: How fascinating that we take in smells with every noseful […]

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