Tanya Marlow – on the Bible, suffering and the messy edges of life
Posted in Recommendations and Reviews on Jun 9th, 2013
The wonderful Leigh Kramer does a monthly ‘what I’m into’ post, and I thought that was a fab idea! So I’m linking up with her, and do take a while to look round her blog- she’s one of the nicest people in the blogosphere. Here’s what I’ve been into in May. (If you want [...]
Posted in illness, living with M.E., M.E. awareness on May 13th, 2013
Last week I went on an Internet fast. It was meant to be like a silent retreat so I could focus on writing, away from the many voices on social media. I was looking forward to working on my M.E. book, and being productive. But last week I found myself slipping into worsening health. [...]
Posted in Culture and Society, living with M.E. on Apr 14th, 2013
I have seen a number of news items recently, including periodicals which should know better, saying something like this: “Disability Living Allowance, the benefit that helps with the extra costs of being disabled, is being replaced by PIP. PIP will have regular face-to-face assessments, rather than DLA which was based on self-assessment questionnaires.” [...]
Posted in Recommendations and Reviews on Feb 2nd, 2013
I keep meaning to do a weekly Bits’n’Blogs post, and never getting round to it. And then I saw that the wonderful Leigh Kramer does a monthly ‘what I’m into’ post, and I thought that was a fab idea! So I’m linking up with her, and do take a while to look round her blog- [...]
Posted in Five minute Friday, living with M.E., Spirituality and discipleship, suffering on Jan 25th, 2013
“Can you please tell me how to get in touch with my local ME specialist? I know the files were being transferred to a new system last year, but I was meant to see him last March, and haven’t heard anything and…” I stop before the emotion catches up with me: pause, concentrate on [...]
Posted in living with M.E. on Jan 17th, 2013
I was going to write a (slightly overdue) supercool Blogoversary post. But I can’t do that right now. At some point I shall probably write about my experience this week of being rushed to A and E (Emergency Room) in a cool ambulance while they tried to work out if I was having a [...]
Posted in living with M.E. on Jan 9th, 2013
Flicktone, on Flickr”> I scroll endlessly between the two options: dark green or dark grey? Which pair of boots will be better? (I really wanted patent black, but they didn’t have it). Grey will do. Grey will be good. It will be better than patent black, really. It will be more wearable. Do I [...]
Posted in Bible, living with M.E. on Sep 11th, 2012
“…And then a light clicked on for me. I thought of the chains of my disability. I thought of Paul, imprisoned in his house, unable to preach the gospel openly. I thought of his goal to go to the far nations, to preach where the gospel had not gone before. I thought of his love [...]
Posted in Art and Story and Writing, living with M.E. on Sep 4th, 2012
I was seventeen, and alone, crying uncontrollably in the corridor. And I went to my French lesson anyway. ******* It was the end of form period and the bell had just rung for the final lesson of the day. “Tanya, could you stay behind for a moment?” my form tutor asked. [...]
Posted in M.E., M.E. awareness on May 11th, 2012
I wanted to end this week of M.E. Awareness by asking you to do me a favour. Please do one of these three things below to help M.E. sufferers like me. They all involve a key number: 100,000. 1. GIVE £100K is the amount needed to open an M.E. Centre of Excellence in Norwich, [...]
