Charades

My partner and I have had a long-standing joke that whenever I dissolve into a fit of pouting silence (I won’t comment on how often this happens), that he tells me to “use my words” as if I was a three-year-old. Often, I feel like telling my headache the same thing.  When it gets grouchy … More Charades

Why I Run

A few years ago an acquaintance remarked on my overly-active lifestyle that I must be running from something. I am. My pain. Since developing meningitis in 2001 at the age of 18, I’ve had a chronic, incurable daily headache that hasn’t left me even for a moment. In the first three years after becoming ill, I … More Why I Run