The Mind-Body Connection by Peggy Orenstein

I just read Peggy Orenstein’s essay in this Sunday’s, The Way We Live Now section of The New York Times magazine called, “Stress Test, Why Americans want to believe that our mental states can control our physical maladies.”
Orenstein says, “I suspect women today may be particularly vulnerable to placing the locus of illness in their [...]

A Nutritional Low

by Andrea McDowell
This column was originally published on the Literary Mama website.
I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes sixteen years ago when my vision deteriorated from 20/20 to nearly-blind in three days. Since then, I’ve been very fortunate: not only am I still free of complications, but past the initial diagnosis I have never been [...]

Life in the Balance

I heard this story the other day, “On Point.” Tom Ashbrook spoke with Dr. Tom Graboys, a doctor struggling with Parkinsons and Dementia who has just co-authored a memoir called, “Life in the Balance.” Listen to this story here, at http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2008/06/20080616_b_main.asp
What struck me about this story was the language Dr. Graboys used to describe his [...]

Chronic Mama column #1

Swimming With My Clothes On 
This column originally appeared on the Literary Mama website.
by Amy Mercer
My family has a tradition of jumping into Keoka Lake after the annual Fourth of July costume parade. I was always one of the last ones in the water; I liked to watch the outfits fill with air as family members [...]