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Lyme Disease | my journey with tick-borne illness
Happy Tickaversary - Year 8: Moving
This Tickaversary post is purposely, joyously, and miraculously late. I had a feeling long ago that it might be, and I began so many...
Happy Tickaversary - Year 7: The Monastery of St. Borrelia and The Existential Crisis
Can I respect everything in its season – winter, exhaustion, rest, grief? Can I honor Sabbath, transition, liminal spaces, unknowing?
Hollowgraphy
Post-Coronial dystopia
Happy Tickaversary - Year 6: Re-Mission
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?
Where's The Poop, Robin? (Part 1)
My Lyme Story: For all the talk of finding the root cause, are we never getting to it: belief systems that perpetuate stress and fear?
Where's The Poop, Robin? (Part 2)
My Lyme Story: The Mind-Body connection deserves a more prominent look in the causes of chronic illness. Are we hiding the key to healing?
Where's The Poop, Robin? (Part 3)
My Lyme Story: How deep does this go? Is Chronic Lyme just the tip of a much bigger iceberg?
Where's The Poop, Robin? (Part 4)
My Lyme Story: Here I had it - the brain region responsible for all my problems, past and present. ADD, Depression, psychiatric Lyme
Where's The Poop, Robin? (Part 5)
My Lyme Story: Total Depravity. With a mind like that, how could I NOT get an illness that destroys the entire body? Total Autoimmunity.
Where's The Poop, Robin? (Part 6)
If we were raised in a culture of "No Pain, No Gain" or "suffering with Christ", how could we ever accept self-care and rest for healing?
Happy Tickaversary - Year 5: The Weight and the Waste
I’m in a new territory – the “Remission Purgatory” as I call it. A space in between sick and healthy.
When God Shows Up
If I want to heal, know God, and be restored sevenfold, what should I expect but a whirlwind? When God sends a plague, it sets people free.
Happy Tickaversary - Year 4
I can’t believe it’s “only” been 4 years since the “Summer of the Ticks.” It seems like a lifetime ago. In many ways it was – I am a...
Happy Tickaversary - Year 3
People think of recovery as tomorrow being better than yesterday, every day, every week, a little stronger. But Lyme-MSIDS recovery, like th
Happy Tickaversary! Year 2
Instead of lamenting the weekend I found the tick that changed it all, I will celebrate surviving thus far!
Job's Daughter - Part 2: Back to Job
There is a time to break down. There is a time to weep. There is a time to mourn. There is a time to be silent. Take it, and have peace.
Job's Daughter - Thoughts on Dying Young
I need to realize the self-fulfilled purpose of merely existing. I was created. I lived. He was glorified. It is finished.
The Tattoo
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.
So I Have Lyme Disease
I’m entering my 5th month of treatment for Lyme disease (suspected 10th month of infection), and I’m having a rare “good week” when I...
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