My CFS makes the outside world a frequently scary place because I am just not strong enough, much of the time, to tackle it. Despite all my yoga and Alexander Technique and healthy eating and meditation and therapy, I’ve been plunged into a relapse of my Chronic Fatigue Syndrome the past two w...

By David Niebauer It’s hard to argue against any program that advocates the replanting of forests, or the avoidance of destroying forests in the first place. We all know from grade school science that, through a process called photosynthesis, trees “breathe in� carbon dioxide and “exhale� ...

My Tip o’ the hat goes to: The greeter at IKEA Osborne Park in Perth, when I walked in there for the first time this week. Sometimes I like to pretend I’m independent, you see, part of the Human Race of folks who sometimes Go Out and sometimes Buy Stuff. Which would likely be relatively ...

Ah, yes, why not start the day on the blog with a happy story? Could it be because I'm a sadist? Naaaaaaah. More likely it's because this is a topic that always pushes a sensitive personal button: the link(s) between childhood trauma or abuse and a range of adult problems, from chronic depression an...

I just got an invitation to join the facebook group “I tap slow-walking people on the shoulder and say, “Excuse me please!” Uh - no. Fuck no. With cherries and sprinkles. And the sauce of your choice. Laying your hands on me without invitation, strangers, sure isn’t going to ...

Before I went to bed last night. I asked God to give me a sign about my Grandmother and if she was in Heaven. Instead what I got was a graphic dream about my earthy Father's death. Now this is not to say he will die in this fashion but to let me know he is in fact on the wrong path. Also I want to n...

Congratulate me. No, really. Let's hear it for me staying partially sane for the past 13 years of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Fibromyalgia, and 4 years of Chronic Daily Headache. Of course the pharmacist who I'm on a first name basis with might hedge at the "sane" part, since I'm on ::counting on finge...

From the New York Times: Leonard Jason is a professor of psychology at DePaul University in Chicago and the director of the university’s Center for Community Research. He is on the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory Committee to the federal Department of Health and Human Services and is a board...

I have had it with social networking. Its too hard to follow what everybody is doing. And I no longer care. Last night I deleted my facebook account, and it felt really good. All those invitations to use the vampire application, was sucking all of the energy out of me. I still have other network sit...

The last few weeks have been difficult ones for me. I have had some heinous cough- that is not really going away. I have all sorts of mono symptoms that haven’t really been going away. My skin has been peeling like crazy. And some other stuff has been brought to the surface, that I am not quit...