Posts by sarcozona

Tension

It’s a challenge to mindfully walk that middle path between being proactive about your health – always trying to improve it – but at the same time, accepting the way you are so that you can make the best of each day. From Toni Bernhard’s How to Live Well with Chronic Pain and Illness

Is this how I learned stillness?

Illness is the space where I came to understand the limitations of my being. It’s a lesson we all learn but one I learned harshly and twice, first watching my mother and then enduring my own suffering. Now I know that I can lie down for hours without moving. I can meditate. I can stare […]

While you’re waiting for the bus

The Transit Pulse of London’s Tube Black in Middle America | Brevity Time to unionize customer-facing bankers know the difference Very important note on fantasy systematics Bidding Wars for Renters, Not Just Purchasers I don’t care that my current bedroom is so small I had to remove my drawer handles to walk around the bed, […]

Everywhere at the end of time

One of my favorite artists has been diagnosed with early onset dementia and is creating a “series of works exploring dementia, its advance and its totality.”

What’s a grad student worth?

I have a post up today on Tenure, She Wrote about structural financial barriers in academia for chronically ill graduate students. If a worker is less productive, should they be paid less? This is not an abstract question for me. As a sick graduate student, I take longer to produce academic products like papers and […]