Butterfly Wrestling
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” Theodore Roosevelt This is a story about making lemonade out of lemons, or in my case earning a letter in a high school sport even though lupus...
View ArticleHot off the Press! Butterfly Lessons Founder is in the Washington Informer!
I’ve had such a great time as the Co-Chair of the 2011 DC Walk for Lupus Now! One of my most important goals was to raise awareness of the disease in the DC Metro area. Today I am featured in the...
View ArticleDear 16-year old me (#HAWMC 10)
Today’s HAWMC prompt is: Dear 16-year-old-me. Write a letter to yourself at age 16. What would you tell yourself? What would you make your younger self aware of? I’ve had lupus since my early teens,...
View ArticleLupus Sucks, Let Me Count the Ways (#HAWMC 23)
Today’s HAWMC topic is writer’s choice and I had planned to write about being happy in spite of being chronically ill. But over lunch I read a wonderful article on ovarian cancer survivor Susan Gubar...
View ArticleCongratulations, You Have Lupus (#HAWMC 28)
Today’s topic for the Health Writer’s Activist Month Challenge is to write about a “first” in your life: “Write a post about the first time you did something. What is it? What was it like? What did you...
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