“Am I a waste of a therapist’s time?”

16 Dec 202216 Dec 2022

Reddit is often a scary place, but sometimes there are people and places that make it hugely worthwhile. One of those places is the Multiple Sclerosis subreddit. There's often a…

The Full Catastrophe

31 Oct 202231 Oct 2022

One of my dad's favorite old movies is Zorba the Greek. One of the best quotes from the movie is this: "I'm a man, so I married. Wife, children, house,…

The Great Resignation

29 Sep 202129 Sep 2021

I've written before about my husband's job. His difficult, difficult job: http://katuvaggio.com/2020/08/24/how-the-us-falls-apart/ http://katuvaggio.com/2018/11/05/to-save-time/ If you haven't read those posts, I highly recommend you take a coffee break before you read…

How the US Falls Apart: One Trade at a Time

24 Aug 202024 Aug 2020

Central Virginia is six COVID cases away from losing 80% of its hospital imaging capacity. I wish I didn’t know this. I wish this weren’t true. I wish I were…

Right View

22 Mar 202024 Mar 2020

There are a couple ways to view what's going on right now. One starts funny and ends sad. The other starts sad and ends...okay. And not okay as in "meh."…

Things to be hopeful about

19 Dec 201919 Dec 2019

I've been seeing a lot of things in the news to be hopeful about. None of them have to do with politics. (Well, okay, one of them does, but not…

The Devaduta Kingdoms

9 Oct 201921 Oct 2019

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.…

Altered States Part II: Prayer

15 Sep 201915 Sep 2019

I’d thought I could discuss ecstatic or altered states in one post. Then I remembered…well, “remembered” is the wrong word. More correctly, I experienced a sucker punch to the head:…

Right Action: i.e., WTH am I doing here?

28 Jun 201929 Jun 2019

There are moments that I just stop. I don't mean physically. I'm talking about moments that the contents of my brain and heart go on pause, and I catch myself…

The Phantom Fourth

7 Jun 20197 Jun 2019

I'm about to test in taekwondo again, another in a long line of tests to (in theory) get me to my first degree black belt. I've already got the belt…