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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”
Rain fills up my skin until I can’t breathe. There is an anchor sitting in my chest. I can feel its weight as it moves side to side, trying to find purchase in the waves but finding none. I look to find direction, but… Continue Reading “Brain Storm Solar Flare – 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”
i feel this endless need to say that I’m sorry. i know it’s not my fault, that the storm that rages within my skin is not of my doing, but i want to make everything better, want to somehow take away the pain that… Continue Reading “i know, but… – a poem”
as the sea threatens to take me away again, my first thought is “i didn’t ask for this.” as the waters grow deeper, i have to remember that none of this is my fault, that the disease which ravages my internal world is not… Continue Reading “what is possible? – a poem”