Feisty girl profile :: Meet Kinsey.
Kinsey is a young, petite powerhouse of fresh ideas and energy (figurative, maybe not physical—she does have fibromyalgia, after all). This year she’s dedicated herself to learning to live fully with a...
View ArticleLet’s break the silence.
When I was 20, my new boyfriend slammed me against a wall. We were asleep, in his room, in the old college house he shared with a few other athletes and Campus Crusade for Christers. He was going to be...
View ArticleFeisty girl profile :: Meet Nicole.
When Nicole at Gospel Restoration and I started talking, I immediately felt we were kindred spirits. I knew from her blog that she lived with fibro, but I got really excited when she also talked about...
View ArticleFriday Feist :: Freckle faces.
Legend has it my mom watched my first freckles pop out on my nose under the Texas sun. I was two. Though I loathed the growing constellation of pigment on my skin for the next 20 years, I’ve since...
View ArticleWhat I need you to know :: The road seems long.
Sometimes the road seems long. And cold. Like the winter that seems unwilling to give, the freeze that refuses to thaw, the snow that stubbornly insists it need not cease to fall—this road continues...
View ArticleFeisty girl profile :: Meet Merry.
Merry is hilarious. She has a raw, dry sense of humor that gets me every time. She’s at once incredibly thoughtful and unabashedly real (read: some posts not for the prude or squeamish). Her blog,...
View ArticleThings to do when you are sad.
How great is this? I discovered it tonight on Pinterest, and I just couldn’t help but share. I love “Don’t listen to Bob Dylan, wear a big sweater,” and “be okay at some point.” Image source here
View ArticleYou’re the poet in my heart.
My parents have long denied the truth. I was named after a Fleetwood Mac song. Only after what you know was a grand moment of Eureka, “Sara!” did they decide maybe it’d be less conspicuous if they were...
View ArticleFeisty girl profile :: Ana.
Ana’s story will stop you in your tracks. She happens to be a survivor of the Bosnian War–and to have fibromyalgia. But, mostly, what leaves my mouth agape is the tenacity with which Ana lives and...
View ArticleI had a baby.
It’s alive! (By it, I mean me.) I’m sorry to have alarmed a few of you with my absence. It’s just that I, well, have a baby at the house now. He’s black and brown, small for his kind. He requires that...
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