Happy Monday, everyone! It’s been a while since I’ve published anything on the website; life has been in transition over the last few months (in a good way), and now, I’m at […]

As the months of 2015 passed with no sign of my health improving, our finances began to spiral. We started just randomly selling things from around the apartment. My hospital bills piled […]

Journal entry: May 24, 2015 I shattered my deodorant this morning. I threw — no, not threw, I chucked it so hard against the cinder block walls of my bedroom that smithereens of plastic […]

A journal entry from: April 2, 2015 We are given a finite amount of time to breathe on this planet. In an infinite universe that stretches across never-ending space filled with stars […]

Upon my return to Hawaii from the Mayo Clinic, I began working on getting a new gastroenterologist — one that my rheumatologist recommended. He was weeks out on first-patient appointments, so my […]

On March 3, 2015, I was able to fly up from Hawaii to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. The journey up there was a long one — my first connection was in […]

I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I decided to become a teacher in Hawaii. Five years have passed since the beginning of that chapter and after everything […]