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    I Lied

    Where I was last week. The lake, the lake!

    You may remember my bravado from such posts as No Excuses, where I asserted with vigor that nothing was going to stop me now. I meant it when I said it, but in my amnesiac optimism I forgot that in the weeks before my Stelara injection [...]

    Book Recs, or the FFP Summer Reading Club

    I love old books so very much. They smell like secrets.

    And Other Summer Business

    Joshilyn’s book tour visit to the Bay Area and my house is over, and I am MISSING HER madly. We had super-fun, she worked like a dog, a very pretty and brave dog, and there might have been a bit [...]

    OH HAI

    We like to remind them that we're smarter than we look.

    How I learned to write a post in minutes, AND, rediscovering having two kids home for the summer.

    So I woke up this morning all groggy and sleepy, trying to get my ruined sleep schedule back on track by making myself get up way before [...]

    Get Out of Jail Free

    I'll lie here for just a minute…

    OR, make an excuse and WIN A PRIZE.

    My comfort zone lies between eyes open and eyes closed.

    My real challenge these next five weeks is finding a way to live a real life like a Real Girl: somnumbulance, bloody stigmata, psoriatic arthritis, and all.

    Remember when I mentioned [...]

    Pretty Is as Pretty Does

    Giant cluttered mess.

    Giant cluttered mess MINUS A BOOKSHELF.

    Our next FFP challenge had better be something that doesn’t require extensive hand- or footwork. At four weeks my Stelara has yet to show positive results, and all of this CLEANING and HANDLING of things is causing trouble. By the way, Stelara isn’t [...]

    Stigmata Arcana

    OR, Some True Things, Some Gross Things, and the Heartbreak of Psoriasis.

    Not a photo of psoriasis. That would be vulgar.

    This post isn’t about diet. It’s only tangentially about exercise, but it IS about health! And a terrible secret.

    Five years ago, spots, each the size of a pea, appeared at the center of the [...]