In the war at home, I honor the sanctity of grief. My grief. Their grief. Your grief. Our grief.

What remission from chronic Lyme is NOT is a sudden restoration to 100% health. A new life is here. And there’s no road map. Now what?

If I am to remember God's love in my darkest times, I would ask Him to remember what it's like to grieve so hard you drown the whole world.

My favorite moments of awakening and transformation happened in what I called "The Remission Purgatory."

Self-Love is healing, holy, and necessary.

2020 | assemblage | 75" x 35" x 9"

2020 | installation | medical paraphernalia | 24" x 69" x 45"

Chronic illness is complex; your treatment can be complex with dozens of pharmaceuticals and specialists, or it can simplified into one unifying theory: YOUR BODY, on Chinese Medicine.

I'm making progress, so I say "I'm fine." But there's so much daily suffering you don't see.

Instead of lamenting the weekend I found the tick that changed it all, I will celebrate surviving thus far!

Somewhere out there is a young woman whose life has just been derailed by Lyme, unsure if life is still worth living. For her, I write.

The beginning of my Lyme Journey