Life
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Shifting from Tracking to Journaling: A New Approach to Migraines
I saw my neurologist yesterday, and the outcome wasn’t what I had hoped for. Continue reading
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Understanding Migraine Treatment Struggles
Well let’s see, August has been a hellish month, out of control migraine, visits to emergency clinic, drug cocktails to try and fail to bring the pain down, hospital visits to be hooked up to IV be fed a different cocktail of meds which brings the migraine to a tolerable level for a few days… Continue reading
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Book Review: This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune
Fortune brings a fun summer read that will appeal to fans of Christina Lauren or Abby Jimenez. Fortune’s latest book, This Summer Will Be Different, published May 7, 2024, is available on Amazon in paperback, hardcover, Kindle, and audiobook formats, as well as at your local library through the Libby App. The audiobook is narrated… Continue reading
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Book Review: Three Sisters by Heater Morris
Three Sisters, the last in the Tattooist of Auschwitz series, was published on October 5, 2021, and is available on Amazon in paperback, hardcover, Kindle, or audiobook formats, as well as at your local library through the Libby App. The audiobook is narrated by Finty Williams, who mimics Morris’ clinical writing style in her narration,… Continue reading
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Book Review: One Day by David Nicholls
Nicholl’s book, published June 15, 2010, with the audiobook released on July 13, 2010, is available on Amazon in paperback, hardcover, Kindle, or audiobook formats, as well as at your local library through the Libby App. The audiobook narrated by Anna Bentinck delivers the author’s vision of a romance spanning over twenty years between two… Continue reading
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Book Review: Cilka’s Journey by Heather Morris
In Morris’s follow-up novel of the The Tattoosist of Auschwitz she makes it clear that while the story is based on actual events in Cecília Kováčová ‘Cilka Klein’ life, it still a novel of fiction weaving together facts and reportage with experiences of women survivors of the Holocaust and the experiences of women sent to… Continue reading
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Inspiration from My Beagle and Life Journeys
To be honest, I never expected my blog to be a world changer, more like a blip in this vast plane where wanderers might be inspired to pick up a book after reading a review, or making someone smile with my beagle antics posts, or feeling less alone in their chronic pain journey once they… Continue reading
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DMV Etiquette: The Importance of Compassion
At my local DMV office, they don’t open the doors fully; instead, they have a section of seats outside the accordion doors, and it’s like a game of musical chairs, without the music—the elimination is the person who gets called to the DMV counter. And just like musical chairs, there aren’t enough chairs for everyone.… Continue reading
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Early Mornings and Beagle Adventures
Considering my day started at 3am when my beagle asked for the door, I would say, no, not so much. Continue reading
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The Small But Mighty Compsognathus: A Study in Dinosaurs
He may not be fierce or tall, but I’d bring back the compsognathus. Yes, the bipedal, carnivorous, theopod the size of a chicken, that’s the one. Why, because he looks defenseless, and bird-like and sweet, and I know he’s not. The fact that this little creature has been the most studied of dinosaurs by great… Continue reading
