I haven’t much felt like blogging lately. Last Monday, married friends of my husband and mine were brutally attacked in their home in North Carolina. He survived; she died early Wednesday morning. The past week has been a confusing and profoundly saddening blur, first of painful waiting, then of rushed travel preparations, airports, the visitation, … Continue reading Flowers Shall Grow
Doctors, acquaintances, and the internet regularly remind me that nutrition plays a significant role in seizure control. My subjective opinion is that my diet is awesome. Objectively, there is probably some room for improvement. I sometimes joke that my favourite flavour is bland, but there’s more than a grain of truth in that statement. If … Continue reading In Praise of Culinary Monotony
I derive weird pleasure from devising theories about the cause of my epilepsy, which is supposedly idiopathic. As someone who values order and reason above almost everything else, I like to remind myself that just because medical professionals say that I spontaneously developed a seizure disorder doesn’t mean that they’re right. The idea that doctors … Continue reading Rock Tumbling
The only thing that unschooling has in common with epilepsy is the particular brand of self-conscious embarrassment it inflicts when a stranger/new acquaintance associates the word with me for the first time. But I figure that since I've been putting it all out there, I might as well write about the unconventional choice that my … Continue reading Confessions of a Former Unschooler
De Morbo Sacro: Life and/with Epilepsy 