According to the CDC, about 50 million people live with chronic pain. 50 million people wake up every day in pain. Some trudge through their work days while others are on disability. It can be invisible obstacle that someone is struggling with and somehow, on the outside they look fine. Others, their pain shows in…
I am a sucker for reading books that thoroughly transport me to their world. I also find myself doing everything possible to live in books when I read them. I adore flagging pages that describe foods I can cook later or finding books based on places I am going to visit. Before my trip to…
Several years ago I started creating bucket lists for different parts of the year. Sometimes I do smaller ones for the month while other years I do seasonal ones. If I am being totally honest, it is usually Spring and Summer then October, November, December, and January each get their own individual bucket lists because…
2024 was a year of drastic change for me in my personal life that started in 2023 while lying in a hotel bed in Tokyo. Japan was my bucket list place. That was the whole list. While lying in a bed after a day of walking around finding the cutest little shrines and being enamored…