(Part of this is a rewriting of a previous post that can be found here. I have updated my writing on Loki and added some on Aphrodite.) Loki started out Calling me quietly. His name would come into my head, especially in times of difficulty or when I felt lost, with a compulsion to look […]
Author Archives: solinox
Ideal Body Weight
I will open this by saying that I’ve been told I was overweight or obese my entire life. My whole life, all the way back to junior high. My mom had me in Weight Watchers and special exercise programs and therapy programs for fat kids as a teenager. I learned all the height and weight […]
Why
I was asked today what my purpose was in attending seminary, and how long I would be in school there. At first I didn’t really have an answer. I know that I sort of joined on a whim at first, following a friend because it sounded like fun. I really had to think about it […]
EDS Hypermobility Type
I posted once about hypermobility syndrome after I first met with my current rheumatologist back in 2013, but I never followed up on it. Now I’ve been living with the diagnosis and integrating it into my view of myself for almost three years, and because a couple of my friends have the same condition I feel […]
Gonna Get My Groove Back
I am getting achy again as winter creeps in, and I am tired of feeling like everything takes forever around here, so I am going back to an old tactic I used as a kid that works much better with today’s tech: the timer! I’m going to race myself against the timer and see how […]
One Big Happy Family
People die every day. They are shot, stabbed, strangled, or blown to bits. They die from natural disasters and crappy engineering and war. They die from operator error, negligence, and neglect. They die from disease, from old age, from wearing their body out a little faster than others. I’m not sure what makes a death, […]
Sweet 16
I remember 16 years ago. At this time, dinnertime 16 years ago, I was barely able to stand, afraid the hole that stretched across the bottom of my belly would rip open and spill my guts out if I did. I had only just returned to my hospital room after my first trip to visit […]
A’Kos Goes to Disney, Part Two: The Road There
I just left everybody hanging on our road trip, didn’t I? Life gets in the way sometimes, but I will get the whole trip posted eventually. Here’s part two: We’ve made road trips by camping as a family before, but that was many years ago. We’ve camped more recently as a family using a popup camper, […]
Learning How to Run
I first learned how to run just a few years ago. I have never been an athletic person. I was always the musician, the geek, the bookworm. What got me started on running was seeing an old high school friend take up the challenge via the Couch to 5K (C25K) training method. She also was […]
A’Kos Goes to Disney, Part One: The Planning
We’ve had a timeshare since before we had kids. I grew up in a traveling timeshare family and really liked it as a kid, so I pushed for the some experience for our own family. When we had triplets, and then three more kids, we constantly outgrew the units we owned, so we never used […]