by Guest Blogger | Dec 18, 2019 | Chronic/Serious Illness
My family is pretty rooted in tradition. We always spend Christmas Eve at my great-aunt’s house in a tiny little town in northern Minnesota with anywhere from 40-60 people packed tightly into her home. My mom prepped the Thanksgiving turkey with the same recipe that...
by Kevyn Eva Norton | Dec 4, 2019 | Chronic/Serious Illness, Inspiration
This week was World Aids Day. My brother lost his life to AIDS in 1994. He was 29 years old and one of the first people who contracted the HIV disease in the early eighties, when nobody knew yet what exactly the disease is. The only thing that was known is that there...
by Rosemary Lokhorst | Nov 27, 2019 | Chronic/Serious Illness, Inspiration
This year, as I sit and contemplate the things I’m thankful for, I think about my best friend, Suzanne. Suzanne recently passed away after a long fight with cancer. What I am thankful for is that it is over. I don’t mean to be callous. We all wish this story had a...
by Rosemary Lokhorst | Nov 6, 2019 | Chronic/Serious Illness, Self Help
For the last three years, I was a caregiver to my best friend as she fought and eventually succumb to breast cancer. But as they say, “It takes a village,” and so it was not just me, but a group of our people that shared both the burden and the special moments....
by Garth Sundem | Oct 30, 2019 | Chronic/Serious Illness, Education/Parenting, Uncategorized
If your chronic illness is visible, there’s no way around it: You probably spend most of the year feeling different. Even if you choose to hide your chronic illness, it’s easy to feel like you’re not quite like everyone else. And for most of the...
by Amber Blackburn | Oct 16, 2019 | Chronic/Serious Illness, Self Help
As I near my mid thirties and have yet to meet my lifetime mate, dating is something that is on my mind more and more. Most of my friends have coupled up and are starting their families and I am growing tired of always being the odd man out or the only single...
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