I make this beef stew pretty much by heart, and have been doing it mostly the same way for YEARS. But when I posted that I made it tonight, a few people asked for the recipe. So here it is, as best as I can actually recollect it. It’s so super easy and it’s THE [...]
Two years. That’s about how long I’ve been living with this strange illness that leaves me breathless all the time and that has totally and completely screwed up my life and my health. No one could figure it out, until Mayo Clinic came along. Today, I finally got the answer I was looking for. I [...]
I was a bartender for almost 9 years, all through college and for several years afterward. I worked a LOT of football Sundays, which meant that I served a LOT of Bloody Marys. I’m a Bloody Mary lover, so in that time, I had the chance to really perfect my take on the iconic Sunday [...]
I just got back from the Mayo Clinic on Friday of last week, and before I left, the very nice vampires…er, phlebotomists took sample number 4,329,972 (approximately) of blood from me to check a few very specific and rather obscure things that my Team of Pulmonary Magic asked of them. Just yesterday, I got a [...]
If you’ve been around me much at all in the last couple of years, you may already know about my lingering and very stubborn breathing issue. It’s pretty lame, actually. Me, all huffing and puffing and not getting to blow down one. freaking. house. in the process. No pigs, either. I was actually rather reticent [...]
Social media isn’t very healthy for people who suffer from depression. It’s a minefield of platitudes and rah-rah wrapped in generalizations and self-help wisdom, of superficial relationships that are given the illusion of intimacy by heightened and frequent communication that feels personal, accessible, and real. It’s rife with opportunism and insecurity, the scrabblings of people [...]
We all carry baggage. Sometimes, matched sets of patinated, tattered leather, scarred from years of travel yet we drag them behind us. We drag them whether they wear us down, or teach us anything. It’s as though we believe that because we’ve earned those scars the hard way, we owe it to them to carry [...]