“Oh My Gawd!” [In my best Valley Girl voice.]  It has been more than a year since my last post.  I suppose my excuse, like everyone, is life gets busy…  My writing fell off the table. New Home in St. Francis Last May, I purchased a house in St. Francis, Wisconsin (half-mile from the lakefront, just south of Milwaukee) and dove into the move and getting settled.  Home projects ensued, which never seem to get completed as fast nor as easily as hoped.  Read More

I contracted Covid in March of 2020.  I was never hospitalized but I experienced four weeks of fatigue, difficulty breathing, tightness in my chest, malaise, exhaustion, brain fog, and a complete loss of productivity. I am a 57-year-old writer and athlete.  Feeling better, I got back on my road bike and four weeks later had logged 520-miles.  Then BAMM!  With no warning—on May 15, 2020—Covid returned and laid me out.  Month after month I struggled to manage life’s basics, occasionally able to accomplish some half-days of work.  Read More

Fast approaching a year of dealing with Covid I am finally starting to feel better thanks to a friend of a friend and a Nobel prize winning substance, known in medical shorthand as IVM.  My journey is not over, but IVM has offered a major path to recovery which has been thwarted from the start.  This is my story… Mid-morning on March 23, 2020, I was knocked down with fatigue, slept for 2-1/2 hours and awoke to a growing malaise and brain fog.  Read More