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The Adventures of Miss Migraine is an ongoing column about my life with chronic migraine. This post first appeared on my blog of the same name on November 9, 2012. 1. Which way to turn the cold water tap in order to shut if off. 2. To put my pants on BEFORE my shoes. 3....
I love New Year’s Day. It’s not the drinking (although don’t get me wrong, I enjoy a good drink), or counting down to midnight, or setting off firecrackers and noise makers. No, I love New Year’s Day because it’s a fresh start. Ultimately, it’s a completely arbitrary fresh start. It’s a psychological trick that we...
Like any year, 2018 had its ups and downs, perhaps with a few more downs than ups. I set too many goals at the beginning of the year, and lost track of most of them in June. Most of those goals were vague and unrealistic. Something to work on this year. Still, I made some...
December is always an exhausting month, and it seems to be so regardless of your participation in that baby Jesus holiday. Everyone is stressed out, busy, and scrambling to get presents for everyone. Plus, that god awful horrible music that’s everywhere! It’s enough to drive the sanest of humans to extreme measures. But I’ll spare...
A few Novembers ago, I drove up to Old Economy Village in Ambridge, which is about thirty minutes outside of Pittsburgh. I got lost. Very, very lost. First, I missed my turn off of the main highway, so I had to drive along another few miles of industrial parks, freight rail lines and factories. Being...
Kelly reads everything, writes weird depressing fiction, and always has a migraine. She lives in Pittsburgh, PA with her partner, their dog, a lot of tea, and too many books. Keep reading...
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