Now that fall is officially here it means I can stop worrying about the veggies and the flowers and start focusing on more important things, like getting myself in shape for the upcoming winter. I don't know how I managed it, but I gained almost 25 extra pounds over the summer despite being pretty active …
It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanesAnd roofs of villages, on woodland crestsAnd their aerial neighborhoods of nestsDeserted, on the curtained window-panesOf rooms where children sleep, on country lanesAnd harvest-fields, its mystic splendor rests!Gone are the birds that were our summer guests,With the last sheaves return the laboring wains!All things are symbols: the external …
Am I the only one who noticed that there suddenly seems to be names for the full moon that I've never heard before? There's the Worm Moon and the Sturgeon Moon and the Super Bloody Pink Strawberry Wolf Moon (or something like that). There are so many names thrown out there. Why? Well, I learned there …
There are studies coming out showing those of us with clonal mast cell diseases seem to have a natural immunity to covid, or are at least not getting critically ill if we do get it because our hyperactive immune systems fight the virus off quickly and efficiently. So there's a bit of a silver lining …
I was chatting with a friend the other day who was afraid they have "long COVID" and, based on her symptoms and her doctor's opinion, it's probably the case. We talked at length about the similarities between my own symptoms living with mastocytosis and hers, as well as the recommended treatments, and marveled at how …
