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Judith will be blogging about topics related to Fever of Unknown Origin, Still's Disease, as well as psychological, spiritual and physical brushes with death and loss. An exploration—based on her own experiences as well as her training as a psychotherapist—of the bruises, the lessons, the footprints these experiences leave behind. Not a how-to. More a sharing.

Swimming in Lake Kegonsa

It’s summer at my grandparents’ lake cottage. I love the cottage because it’s full of things left behind by my grandparents’ parents and...

Sad Hotel

When I was nineteen, I was in a serious car accident. I’d gone with my parents on a trip to Palmer Gulch Lodge in the Black Hills, an...

WHY I Wrote this book

Why I wrote this book I wrote this book because I needed to have a story to tell myself about my illness and about the deaths of my...

Addendum to Close Call #1, Suicide

I had this dream a few days after my ineffectual suicide attempt. The dream was so strange and so impactful that I wrote about it in my...

Close Call #1, Suicide

When I was in my early forties, I went to a palm reader just for fun. She stared at the palm of my hand. “I see danger in this hand, many...

How to Write a Book about Illness

Wait until you are well enough to sit at a desk and work at a keyboard. Go to your favorite bookstore; see an ad for a writing coach....