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I was diagnosed with relapse and remitting multiple sclerosis twelve years ago today. I’ve been trying to think of what this means to me. Living with a chronic illness on top of a physical disability has not been an easy road, but it’s one… Continue Reading “The Wisdom of Trees – A Poem”
If you had told me that in ten years, I’d be a completely different person, I would have laughed. At the time I was diagnosed, it felt like my world was flooded with so many different emotions. I was alone on a raft, floating… Continue Reading “Ten Years to Love – A Poem”
I’ve been here before. The trees are so familiar to me now. I trace my fingertips along the ridges in the bark that feel like fingerprints. The leaves of the tree are shades of red and faded ochre, but they have dried now, no… Continue Reading “Wicked Symphony – A Poem”
When we first met, I knew that you were the only possible reason For the lack of control over my body which had become a vessel that I no longer knew or understood. Listening to the doctor’s voice, telling me gently that what lived… Continue Reading “Remembering You – A Poem”
* To my Beautiful Husband. When I think back on nine years of living with the unseen foe that lives within, I find myself going back through the memories that I have inside of myself. I flick through them as if they are… Continue Reading “Mercurial Shadows – A Poem”