My Body Thinks It Fought in the Civil War

Aging doesn’t arrive all at once—it shows up in quiet limitations, hard-earned perspective, and the realization that energy is finite. From spoon theory to stubborn independence, this is what it looks like to keep moving forward anyway.

We don’t miss the disease. We miss the version of the story where we survived it.

We don’t romanticize disease—we romanticize surviving it. And that difference matters more than people want to admit.

Cake, Punch, and Encephalitis

We’ve turned childhood diseases into nostalgia and vaccines into controversy. As a healthcare provider, I’ve seen what these illnesses actually do—and it’s nothing worth celebrating.

We Were Promised Flying Cars

We grew up expecting the apocalypse—and instead got stagnation, superstition, and missed scientific leaps. Why don’t we have flying cars? Maybe the answer has less to do with technology and more to do with control.