When Marianna and I talked about me stopping by her blog A Rheumful of Tips, she suggested doing something a bit different. We batted some ideas back and forth and settled on a video. Of me. There’s a reason I’m a photographer, not a model. Well, aside from not having the ability to subsist on [...]

I am beyond thrilled to tell you that I’ve joined CreakyJoints as a regular blogger. They’re a terrific organization and do important work for the inflammatory arthritis community – I’ve been a faithful reader of their posts for years and am pretty chuffed to be part of the group now. My first post for them [...]

You may have noticed I’ve been a bit scattershot in my approach to posting lately, but I have a good reason. Several good reasons. There’s been a rather a lot of work, a lot of book promotion and just recently we dove into making the paperback. This means reading the damn book again. Not that [...]

The latest stop on the Your Life with Rheumatoid Arthritis Blog Tour is Getting Closer to Myself, Leslie Rott’s blog about living with the double whammy of RA and lupus. Leslie is a graduate student in sociology and asked some great questions. I thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to delve deeper into the topic. You can [...]

Jenni is 16 years old, lives in the UK and has the best Twitter handle I’ve seen in a while: @pinger_genguin. Brilliant, right? She raises awareness about chronic and invisible illnesses on her blog MyLungsMyLife. Earlier this week, I wrote a guest post for her about juvenile arthritis. Thanks so much for hosting me, Jenni! [...]

A couple of weeks ago, the lovely people at CreakyJoints asked me to write an invited blog for them. They wanted to hear more about the process of writing the book. I was very happy to oblige. The post is about three factors that are important both to writing a book and living with RA. [...]

I was thrilled to stop at Andrew Lumpe’s Living with Rheumatoid Arthritis to have a chat about the book, writing with RA and a disability and a mutual geek out about the state of research and the digital world. Andrew also did a lovely review of Your Life with Rheumatoid Arthritis. You can read his [...]

I’m happy to announce that my blog tour kicked off today! What’s a blog tour, you ask? It’s a book tour where you don’t have to put on makeup or even leave your home! My lovely friend Cathy at The Life and Adventures of Cateepoo agreed to host the first stop on the tour and [...]

Hope. It’s a very big part of Your Life with Rheumatoid Arthritis. It’s something I mentioned specifically in many of the chapters in the first book, Tools for Managing Treatment, Side Effects and Pain. More than that, though, finding a way to connect to hope is the driving force behind the series. The dictionary defines [...]

Three years ago, I finally went public with a dream. In so doing, I trusted the meds enough, trusted fate, the universe and/or various divinities enough that I could start making a long-term plan. The dream was to have a book with my name on it. And today, I do.   After a gestation period [...]