“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson January 2012. The year of the Dragon-driven, ambitious, self-assured, scrutinizing, brave… I am a Water Rat born in 1972, apparently “Smart,…Read more

Between a rock and a harder rock… Are you familiar with the saying in the picture? The one with two equally hard alternatives? So today I am managing to keep the DM and inflammation suppressed with…Read more

“Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you respond to it.” Every day, I would awaken, think, say, and truly believe how blessed I was, and I’d do it with total love and…Read more

What Do You Do When the Rug is Suddenly Pulled Out From Under You? I think it is telling in some way that I have actually put off writing about this “event” for as long as…Read more

(Back to our story!) “We… anticipate what’s to come, then ignore what’s actually here.”  Stephan Rechtschaffen After the trials and tribulations of my first IVIG treatment and my body slowly marching to its own drum, I…Read more

Does a New Year = New Hope? “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” Mark Twain By January 2010, I was…Read more

One Environmental Scientist + Bio-Energetics = Skepticism When last we left off, I was just about to dive in head first to the world of natural and alternative therapies in December 2008… I had convinced myself…Read more