You Are Not Alone Stories
I escaped the house to roam around the empty city, but so did thousands of others not sheltering in place at home.
Two weeks of sheltering in place down, untold more to go. Today in particular I was struck by how grateful I am to be able to still ride outside.
Anyone else overwhelmed by the words used to describe the pandemic? I decided to track what they look like as a word cloud infographic.
Three months ago, March 5 to be exact, I had my last weekly IV treatment for a rare infection that was attacking the mitochondria in my muscles and had left me a complete shell, just one of several issues that were keeping me from being physically, and mentally, happy.
Endorphins aren’t only made from intense exercise. There is a much more healing, peaceful way of finding them, too.
Completed my first Festive 500: that’s 500km between Christmas and New Years, with my coworker on my mind.
Still finding tears to wring out for my coworker's suicide, and riding seems to help with the grief.
When you are broken on the inside and left undiagnosed, it is a constant struggle to maintain the veneer of normalcy when you are anything but.
It doesn’t happen often enough, but there are times when it seems an angel reaches out to you, and before they disappear, you understand that you are not alone.
My girlfriends and I have had quite a few monkey wrenches thrown into our lives this summer. The one thing we can count on is that we are not alone. Perhaps physically we are, but not in life.