Life can’t resist dropping surprises at our door. The only certainty in a broken world may be bad surprises. Cheerful, right? I’m writing this for two reasons: first, to encourage those battling singledom not to give up on choosing the right person for you. You’re not just another, and you’re not just another single. Why …
Category: A Better Way
A Lifetime Spent on a Sentence
For me, a sentence requires a lifetime of practice. Overwhelming, right? This is how I feel when I read certain sentences in the Bible. In the Bible-reading marathon of a believer, I hope I’m not the only one who lingers on life-changing words, stopped in my tracks at the end of the pack. Aren’t …
How to Navigate Endometriosis in an Unhealthy Medical System – Part 3: Post-Surgery Disappointment & Symptom Management
This tripartite series is dedicated to those exhausted by mulish medical issues. Part 1 demystified the diagnosis dilemma; Part 2 provided time-saving tips for health insurer evasion and brought order to medical bill madness. In Part 3, we’ll explore post-surgery disappointment and symptom management. At the first postoperative visit after my endometriosis surgery, the surgeon …
How to Navigate Endometriosis in an Unhealthy Medical System – Part 2: Health Insurer Evasion & Medical Bill Madness
Preparing for medical costs and correcting errant medical bills shouldn’t be a full-time job. I’ll provide tips to navigate the process, so you can save inordinate amounts of time. After: I can empathize with medical bill madness. Even with multiple calls, escalations and diligent documentation, my health insurer and providers caused me to fall into …
How to Navigate Endometriosis in an Unhealthy Medical System – Part 1: Diagnosis Dilemma
Is any of the following familiar? If any of these exasperating experiences are familiar, in this series, I offer empathy and tips to navigate an unhealthy medical system. In part 1, I discuss diagnosis hurdles and empowering, experience-based propellors to clarity. In upcoming posts, I’ll focus on easing health insurer and medical bill uncertainties, as …
Thrifty Ways to Use Natural, Personal Care Products
Save money, save space, and you may save your health. This week, my content detours. Through substantial time and effort, I’ve discovered ways to simultaneously improve my wallet and health, while minimizing the number of products in my home. I couldn’t resist sharing successful (at least, for me), nontoxic options to help you avoid the …
Mirror, Mirror
App, app on my phone, like my pic, so I can hear a nice tone. Those likes and, less so for me, the mirror, whisper a tempting idea: it’s not entirely hopeless to strive to be fairer than I actually am. Fairer seems to equal more attention, acceptance and influence. Women put their looks to …
Is Christianity Compatible with Self-Help?
Self-help is a self-sought, self-taught and self-implemented solution. Following Christ, unlike any other remedy, philosophy or religion, is the lasting foundation to help yourself — every day, with any problem. Only Christ offers fearless pursuit of reality and freedom to change. The Subtle Misrepresentation of Self-help, in its Purist Form: Trusting in Yourself Marketers’ mantra …
For Jane
Sometimes, what you don’t have the courage to say haunts you. My vocal cowardice creeks and wakes me. I’ve woken to a nagging, uninvited guest, but I knew the outline of its misshapen face. My passive silence etched its ugly features, which, although air, somehow revealed the solid form of my own weakness. Perhaps, my …
Mary and the Unplanned
For some, the holiday season is gray. The season’s brightness casts shadows we hoped time had erased. Its glow reminds us the shadow’s original is real. What causes life to dim may still be with you. I’ll go first. My life plans, well, haven’t gone as planned. Passing time seems to parallel growing distance from …
