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When German friends ask me how I'm doing, I answer "Immer besser," or "always better." I'm making slow progress, and sometimes I'm frustrated at the pace, but I have to…

There are loads of horrible lessons to be learned from Disney princess movies, but I'm not going to touch that. I'm instead going to talk about the coordination that comes…

I'm not sure if I've referenced "spoon theory" here before, but it's a concept that aptly describes my limitations this week. You can read the whole post here, but the summary…

It's hard to write a post this week because nothing remotely near the excitement level of last week happened again. I've still been working hard, and that hard work paid…

Last week there was a small adjustment to my therapy schedule as I had a special hour long session with Anja to try something we'd attempted in earlier half hour…

Saturday was a special treat for me as I was able to spend the day with Jo and Lydia - two of my friends from REHAB. Jo drove me out…

This week a friend posted on Facebook a meme that said, "I feel like I'm already tired tomorrow." I relate to this sentiment on a painfully deep level. I remember…

I'm a big fan of Jesus. (That should be obvious by now.) There's this story recorded in the Gospel of Mark about Jesus healing a paralyzed man. It blew my…

Yesterday in many liturgical services across the globe, Christians celebrated the day Jesus was first brought into the temple. When the chaplain spoke about it at my church yesterday, he…

Many people have heard the story of my sixteenth birthday when I had the audacity to invite my entire high school student body (of 150 students) to my house for…

"The saying is trustworthy, for 'if we have died with him, we will also live with him; if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him,…

Stories compel me to do strange things. When I read Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s disturbingly descriptive novel in college, I went on a heat fast. The book follows the protagonist through a…

I don't have the same New Year miracle like I did last year, but in some ways, I think this New Year's day was even better than last when I…

I've got a long way to go in my recovery, but I've come an incredible distance. I had a beautiful reminder of that last night as I celebrated Second Christmas…

I've started this post three times already, but I'm not really sure what to focus on since so much has happened in the last week. Wednesday I successfully finished classes…

Once upon a time, my mom asked me, "Guess what?" I responded, "It's almost Christmas." I'm pretty sure this began in July. Now, whenever I'm asked that question, my response…

Around 200 years ago, people were dying of "wurstgift" in Germany - sausage poisoning - without really understanding why. Don't you just love the German language? It really was the…

Thanksgiving is a very North American holiday. The BFA community celebrates it for a month - first Canadian Thanksgiving, a couple weeks later dorm Thanksgiving, and this past week was…

I had an idea of what I was going to write about yesterday, but everything changed the minute I looked at my Facebook today. I first saw a notification that…