There’s something about a turtle moving across a busy highway that is so sad. It’s the slow, determined plodding of those four short legs—pull and drag, pull and drag, pull and drag.
Author Archive for Jennifer Lunden
Pity Party
You are invited to an honest-to-goodness, true blue, no-hold-barred Pity Party in honor of Lunden and her life of suffering and deprivation. There will be no playing of the miniature finger violins. Not even a regular violin will do. No, Lunden’s story of suffering and deprivation can only be met with a full-on cello. The real thing. If you have one, you are welcome to bring it.
On Not Being Productive
With this new discovery of the possible connection between the XMRV retrovirus and Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS), I am struck by the magnitude of the desperation for a biological explanation in the CFIDS community. All of us with CFIDS are so excited. But it’s a retrovirus! Like HIV! And we don’t know how it is transmitted. And…
Endurance
I have a picture of me leaning off the edge of a cliff wearing a red-striped harness strapped over my gray track pants. In my gloved hands—right hand in front of me, left hand behind—I grip a rope. I am smiling gamely, because I am with friends, but I have made no bones about the fact that I am scared…