“How strange: to land in the second part of your life, without even having lived its first.” – Trivarna Hariharan Life is weird. Everything is so weird all the time. I think about how weird my life is every time my dad helps me in and out of my wheelchair at the doctor’s office, andContinue reading “May 19, 2025”
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February 20, 2025
“I’m in pain because the day is ending and I am somehow never healing.” – Anne Sexton My entire experience of life has been altered in the most twisted way by being ill. It’s compressing and suffocating and painful. People will be ruthless with you – with your body, with your health, with their words.Continue reading “February 20, 2025”
October 20, 2023
“I’m searching for a phrase that will release everything that’s pent up in me.” – Henry Miller I’m so resentful of this life. I don’t even think to call this a life would be fair. I just don’t think humans were built for this kind of suffering. I wasn’t. And yet, it’s all that IContinue reading “October 20, 2023”
September 26, 2021
I think I’m taking this whole stream of consciousness thing too seriously – my mind works faster than my fingers, so I couldn’t keep up with my thoughts today, but I was writing a lot. I read it back just to make sure it made sense, and I was so caught up in writing thatContinue reading “September 26, 2021”
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25. You can probably assume (actually, you can guarantee) that I’m in bed. Most likely listening to Taylor Swift or trying to figure out what lyrics the 1975 are singing. Secretly prefers most Glee covers to the original. Little bit of a Long Island accent. Really chronically ill. Really hoping it doesn’t stay that way.
The Elephant in the Room 