the autoimmune hippie.

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

memento mori book.

  • *A trigger warning for this one – all the heavy things. Terminal illness, suicide, and assisted suicide are the conversation here. An area that I grapple with often, both as a nurse and as a member of the chronic illness and chronic pain communities, is the right to die, to physician assisted death. No, this… Read more

  • memento mori day.

    I’ve no idea who declared today, January 3rd, Memento Mori Day, but the calendar of those holidays that just seem to appear reports it is so. Regardless of the reason for its creation, Memento Mori Day is definitely in my wheelhouse here at the Autoimmune Hippie – where I am seeking to have my book… Read more

  • It’s Fighting Words Friday and I thought this week we would consider a verse in keeping with my Memento Mori book work that I wrote about earlier this week. If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to… Read more

  • As this has been such a tumultuous year in terms of my health – and energy levels after COVID – my death book has been set aside, very much unintentionally. In fact, at writer’s conference, I actually made plans to go ahead with it – and it is a project that I am passionate about… Read more

  • memento mori

    It’s not surprising, as my next big project is my death book, that I am one acquainted with the night – and thus spend more time thinking on these things than your average bear. This is particularly true now that I have promised myself to have this book ready to go by the end of… Read more