the autoimmune hippie.

Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts. . . Practice resurrection. – Wendell Berry

  • bulldogs and our (personal) cowbells.

    If you watched the Mississippi State/Alabama game this past Saturday – or have seen any of our games on television – you will be familiar with our cowbells. Not only can you hear them throughout the game, the commentators always have plenty to say about them. (Our bells were loud enough on television this past… Read more

  • she’s here.

    I’ll have more news in the coming days on events related to my book but she’s available on Amazon now: https://a.co/d/09O8bWyz I am so excited and can’t wait to share more this week. Be well, everybody. Take care of yourselves and each other. Grace and Blessings. Read more

  • october eve.

    Y’all, after a long, difficult-at-times summer, October is finally here. Though our house is sort of decorated for Halloween year round 😉 , we are getting all of our outdoor decorations out as well as my pumpkin collection and our skeletons that live around the house. . . It’s so exciting. ❤ At the same… Read more

  • coming soon. . .

    Well, y’all, it’s almost here. In about a week, my book will be released on Amazon and we will have dates for events hopefully this week. I am so excited and cannot wait to share her with y’all. Since it’s almost time, I wanted to post again that there is a playlist, if you would… Read more

  • Fall days, family, football, doctors, and fatigue.

    Fall is here, y’all (well, officially tomorrow, but close enough we say 😉). It has been a busy few weeks here in the Hippie Hut with football Saturdays – divided between our house and Mom and Pop’s house, always the best ♥️ – a multitude of doctors appointments, the loss of a dear friend’s mother… Read more

  • new adventures (slowly).

    Since my last post, it feels like there have been several weeks of doctors appointments and rest days and getting my strength back (at least to my baseline). After many fluctuations in my health status and energy levels, I was so happy to have the best weekend with my people. On Saturday, we spent the… Read more

  • giving gratitude for ordinary (wonderful) days.

    Y’all, I’m so happy to report that we are still in slow, healing, home-and-doctors-appointments days here in the Hippie Hut. As we could have predicted, my RA joints, particularly my left hand and my knees, have exploded in the wake of all these malnutrition issues and severe systemic disease – so I will be seeing… Read more

  • the soundtrack for my new book.

    In much happier news than my previous post, my book of sixty reflections on living with chronic illness (which shares the same title as my ebook of forty devotions from COVID-times in 2021 but is completely rewritten and expanded and is not at all the same book) will be released in the middle of September.… Read more

  • back from a most frightening illness break.

    Hi, friends. After being away for over two months – the longest period, by far, that I have ever gone without writing here in the ten years since we started – I am so happy to be returning and slowly getting my strength again. Starting back in the Spring, there are several posts I shared… Read more

  • checking back in.

    Hi, sweet friends. It feels very much like I’ve been “checked out” recently, with illness and hospital stays and new challenges as I learn to handle these additional diagnoses that have come my way. Since I last posted, there have been a few misadventures with illness and the emergency room and needing fluids as this… Read more