“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.” – Douglas Adams Ah. Here I am again, breathing in a new year. I always think of a new year as a time of change – or at least a time for intentions to change....
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the word “endometriosis.” It’s probably because I’ve been saying it more, and writing it, and spelling it, and having Microsoft Word tell me that it does not exist (thanks a lot Bill Gates!) As many...
An hour before surgery and the nerves had started to kick in…big time. Rob was sitting by my side holding my hand and trying to warm me up, when I started to realize, wow, this is really happening right now. “You’re a surgery Sookton,” he said....
Some things are just facts, my friend Laura likes to call them “trufax.” Today’s blog post is the first of my Trufax posts and it features cooking. Trufax: Learning to Cook Takes Observation, Patience and Experimentation When I graduated college and...
I have been on over 10 different birth control pills in my life. From the age of 18 on I have been consuming drugs that I can’t even pronounce. Words like ethinylestradiol norethisterone, levonorgestrel and ethinylestradiol gestodene. And it wasn’t until I...
No I don’t mean stealing picnic baskets (read: pick-a-nick baskets), I mean doing yoga. I mean thinking like a yogi. Clearing my mind, focusing on the right things, learning about my body. A year ago my yoga instructor said to me, “just do it...
