Obviously, if you’ve read any of the earlier posts, you know my life is far from perfect.
Category: health
Imbolc, Lunar New Year, Beginnings and Delays
[meant to post this LAST weekend, but …. ] As usual, my plans fell apart almost as soon as 2023 was underway. Students came back to school in pretty bad shape. For weeks they struggled to engage, their stamina for learning and effort was almost as limited as at the beginning of the year. AND […]
On the Cusp of 2023… (repost from fb)
[originally posted on facebook on 29 Dec 2022] On the cusp of the new (calendar) year, I am thinking about ways to make teaching a little less stressful, and time at home a little more serene. I am revisiting productivity (organizational and scheduling) strategies that, in the past, helped but were abandoned over the last […]
Early Morning Musings (on the last Friday of 2022)
This article from the BBC, originally published in April of 2022 got me thinking: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220412-should-we-be-eating-three-meals-a-day How much of our modern ailments are directly related to our modern conveniences? How much of our modern concerns (climate change, pollution, inflation) are directly related to our modern “advances?” And perhaps most importantly: What can I do, in my […]
Sewing for School
This is a long time coming: Started July 2021 when I realized I wanted some very specific items to keep students at their desks (covid protocols will be in place for the foreseeable future due to the age of my students). It is now November 2022. I did NONE of these tasks. Some of them […]
Accessibility and Invisible Conditions: Musings on Making Life Work
[Started 22 June 2022, Finished 6 November 2022, small edits 30 Dec 2022, and a note: I am not a medical expert and many of the strategies I describe here are things I researched or stumbled upon on my own as my experiences with medical professionals have been frustrating and often completely useless. This is […]
Summer finally begins for me
I was still recovering from the allergic reaction into the middle of the first week of July. Not fun. But had energy to have a nice dinner for my parents on Sunday the third, which of course wiped me out for the next couple of days. Then, on July 7 I had a chance to […]
Allergies
Most of the time as a child my allergies manifested as upper respiratory — sneezing and runny nose. As I grew older, I realized the recurring intestinal discomfort was also an allergic reaction. More recently, I began to get hives on my face and upper body (mostly, though I also get them sometimes on my […]
Dodging figurative bullets
Today for the first time I went to urgent care while experiencing the reaction to cow products. Eating out (my end-of-week treat) I didn’t notice that one of the types of sushi I ordered was made with cream cheese. Fortunately, I know the symptoms and get pretty weirded out by the “precursor” bits. So I […]
A month later… Photos of the garden
In the fullness of autumn, we wandered around the yard, putting things more or less in order, getting ready for the long, cool winter. These are pictures from November, when the rains paused long enough to get a bit more done. Pruning the medlar and the biggest fig tree. Running around the yard with a […]