I’m leaving the house tomorrow at 5:45 a.m. so I’ll go ahead and get my Monday post written today. The reason for my early morning journey is to pay yet another visit to my rheumatologist  who will be starting me on an Orencia infusion. The Remicade didn’t do a whole lot for me so I’m hoping for good results from a different med. While I’ve…

Monday morning, Steve and I drove four hours to Chapel Hill, NC  where Kelly, a woman who attends our church, was having surgery to give one of her kidneys to her 6-year old daughter, Sophie. Is she cute, or what?…

I opted for quietness on my birthday. No big party. No big group of people. An introvert’s dream day. After sleeping in until 7 a.m., I puttered around happily on the computer for a while and then eventually got myself out the door to enjoy a (finally) sunshiney day–a day which followed two weeks of clouds, sleet, snow, rain and other variations of weather morosity.…

I met a guy once who was twenty-three. He was ornery and stubborn and cemented in his ways. His outlook was sour, and he had already grown a dozen decades older than his childhood. When he and I parted ways I thought, “That young man is so old.”…