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Books that are emotionally engaging, passionately crafted, and infused with hope.

Lupus Awareness Day : Making the Invisible to Visibile

Lupus is a chronic, incurable, and often invisible autoimmune illness. It is a daily challenge for those living with it to cope with the myriad of symptoms and often lack of support and understanding from family, friends, employers, and physicians. Just as difficult is the necessity to cope with coping constantly. The average time for…

Rings, Rituals and Impending Hope

Discovering Ourselves in the Time of Pandemic When you live with a chronic illness that keeps you bedridden for days at a time you learn to live life in your mind. You either learn to be comfortable with yourself or you don’t. If you don’t you make yourself and everyone around you miserable. When the…

A CRUEL MYSTERY

A CRUEL MYSTERY             “I will tell you not what you want to hear, but what I know to be true because I have lived it. This truth will trouble you, but in the end, you cannot be free without it, because you know it already, your body knows it already.” Arthur Franks, The Wounded…

MAY IS LUPUS AWARENESS MONTH

The lupus foundation describes lupus as one of the world’s cruelest, most unpredictable, and devastating diseases. It depicts the impact of Lupus on those who suffer from it as brutal. Being in the middle of a significant flare-up myself makes me even more determined to reach out not only to those who have this disease,…

INVISIBLE ILLNESS, LIFE SHATTERING CONSEQUENCES and Hope

The word Heart in the title, Shatter My Heart, has seemed to send Amazon on a quest to match it to lighter novels. This book has a complicated love story as part of addressing the complex ramifications of invisible and chronic illnesses. Shatter My Heart is more accurately a novel that challenges the medical profession’s…

Medical Drama/A Call to Compassion/Shatter My Heart

Recently I received a review from a woman who had just finished reading my literary novel, Shatter My Heart. What she brought out was the medical drama and convergence with other invisible illnesses. I am incorporating her review into this blog because her medical drama and the issues of chronic illness touch so many lives…