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...

I left my Alexander Technique class 15 minutes early today so I could get to my therapy at 12:45 pm. My therapist and I entered a room I had not been in before. We sat in front of a mirror. Behind the mirror was a clinical supervisor and six interns. I had been preparing for this for weeks. I volunt...

I can NOT believe what I have just read on the internet.  CAN NOT BELIEVE that someone from the Associated Press has decided to call my disease a “murky disease” … you see, I have Fibromyalgia , and it sucks.  As if this disease now needs to take another blow to the chest. Now mo...

I prayed to Jesus Christ for about 20 years and it did jack for me. I was still a virgin. The Dallas Cowboys did not win a superbowl after 1978 until 1992. I was alone. I was deformed morally and psychologically. So for the last 20 years, I’ve been praying in Hebrew as Judaism instructs. Frank...

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 ...

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 ...

Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) is once again in the news following the tragic case of 31 year old Lynn Gilderdale who had allegedly suffered from ME for the last sixteen years. “Prior to her illness, which left her paralysed, unable to speak, eat or drink and, until recently, no memory, she was an...

Listen to the whole thing here. When i was covering the San Francisco 49ers and other stuff for KAHI/KHYL radio from 1985-1987, I loved to read Lowell Cohn’s column on the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle sports section. I thought Cohn the greatest writer on sports and Skip Bayless th...

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...

The New York Times recently interviewed Leonard Jason, Ph.D. a professor of psychology at DePaul University in Chicago. I thought readers would benefit from Dr. Jason's insight into this baffling disease. Dr. Jason director of the university’s Center for Community Research. He is on the Chronic Fa...