the autoimmune hippie.

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

Miranda Herring

  • navigating when i really can’t walk. and learning to be speedracer. and amazing jen hatmaker outings. and grace.

    First, I don’t know how to describe this shuffle and slide and hold on to everything-and-everybody-near-me thing I’ve got going on right now when I try to “walk” – but my mobility has gone to hell in a handbasket in the past couple of days (not that it was great before – but this is… Read more

  • the medical news just sucked yesterday.

    Yesterday, several friends on Instagram were doing the #OneDayHH thing, where they were posting pictures of just their regular activities throughout the day. And I had planned to participate as well yesterday morning. So I took these adorable pictures: When we were out at the grocery store, I began to realize I was in big… Read more

  • oh my word. what a thursday morning – and, owww, my foot. :(

    Originially, this was going to be a political type post (fear not, that has totally changed). However, Monday night was a bad weather night in my state. What that means for me is this: When Mr. James Spann starts saying things like “potential long-track tornadoes” days in advance of a system that is going to… Read more

  • getting our Christmas on. :)

    As I’ve mentioned before, last year we decided – after the loss of a very close friend and my becoming essentially homebound due to my illness – not to postpone things that bring joy, like beginning to celebrate the Christmas season in our home as early as we want to. I LOVE it so much.… Read more

  • remembering ryan – and finding wings.

    When our dear friend Ryan passed away, he didn’t want a memorial service. That type of thing really wasn’t him. He was too full of life for all of that business. So we started celebrating him at our local Dia de los Muertos festival instead with an altar for him. All of the colors and… Read more

  • it’s the most wonderful time of the year. . .

    After my last post about all that is going awry right now, I want to encourage all of us to, yes, pay attention and stand and be heard, but also to be sure we are taking time away from this insanity for plenty of rest and time with loved ones and self care. I’m also… Read more

  • shining light in a time of darkness

    At the end of a hate-filled week, an anti-Semitic alt-right psychopath entered the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh last Saturday and murdered eleven people during their time of worship. He injured two other worshipers as well as four police officers. It is heartbreaking and disgusting and just unbearable. After this horrific attack occurred, the… Read more

  • getting back on the (paleo) wagon

    We’ve had so many things going on in our home in the past few weeks. There have been some fabulous things: Our Sara celebrated her 15th Birthday. And my amazing cousin Blair and I finally got to go to our long awaited Lauren Daigle concert. AND my Red Sox won the World Series. If you… Read more

  • the best of and the worst of.

    The smell of hospitals in winter, And the feeling that it’s all a lot of oysters but no pearl. . . – Counting Crows I had a spectacularly shitty medical day today. Truly. Lots to tell. I’ve also had some wonderful times with my nearests and there are some soul stirring things I want to share… Read more

  • feeling the invisible.

    Y’all, it has been a holy hell, beast of a week, with all kinds of new and exciting symptoms manifesting – yay, autoimmune disease – and old foolishness rearing it’s ugly head too. All I have for this is “What the Frack?” As it happens, it’s also Invisible Illness & Disability Awareness Week – that’s… Read more