the autoimmune hippie.

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

GSSS 2026

  • book unboxing day!

    Today was book unboxing day here in the Hippie Hut. 🖤 I am so excited and will be sharing the dates of some local signing events soon where I’ll have copies available. She’s also available on Amazon: https://a.co/d/02Z1liOK I’m super stoked. 🖤 Be well, everybody. Take care of yourselves and each other. Grace and Blessings. Read more

  • a selection from my book with some thoughts for my ginny on her birthday.

    Today is Ginny – my lifelong bestie and partner in crime’s 🙂 – birthday. Since it is her day, I wanted to share a reflection from my book about her and a wonderful trip we took to Montreal together. (It is also related to the cover photo of the book as well.) First, before I… Read more

  • some bookish thoughts.

    As I shared on Monday, my book is here. While we will have in-person dates in November, she is available on Amazon now. When I revisited this book from the original Kindle version I wrote in 2021, I wanted to do something completely different – as, in five years of living with chronic illness since… 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

  • 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

  • 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