Category: Community
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Living in the grey (or orange) zone of life
Our language tends to favor a binary (on/off or 1/0) version of events. Life is good/bad, the sky is clear/overcast, people are heroes/villains, decisions are right/wrong, play a game and you’re a winner/loser, and in our final hour we may well turn out to be saved/damned. If you used traditional…
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Press the (fishy) doorbell – then clap – please!
The internet is a weird and wonderful place, no doubt about it. The other day when I was on Tumblr I read a fantastic post about a fish-doorbell. Yep, you read that correctly. In the Netherlands they have lots of canals, and on those canals they also have ‘locks’ which…
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Lady Gaga’s migraine ad
A few weeks ago, I did a post labelled ‘migraines as advertised’ that showed several (not great) migraine medication ads from decades ago. Seconds after I hit ‘publish’ I noticed an article about a ‘controversial’ Lady Gaga ad for migraine medication. Lady Gaga is well known for her singing and…
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Royalty free images
For today’s post I’m going a bit rogue. This morning, my youngest daughter headed off on a school excursion to the Art Gallery in Sydney, and it reminded me of something I recently read. I know that a lot of my readers are also bloggers, so I wanted to share…
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The blog-rolls keep rolling
I said I was going to annoy you all with my mini-achievements, so here I am celebrating another teeny-tiny-yet-epic milestone: 500 LIKES! Because, in case you haven’t noticed, I’m super motivated about collecting likes (not really – but I’m only human, and they make me warm and fuzzy so keep…
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World Health Day
This Sunday, the 7th of April, is World Health Day, and since I tend to be a Monday-to-Friday blogging kinda gal, I thought I’d better mention it today before we head into the weekend. Occupations tend to run in families. On my side of the family-tree there are two architects,…
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Having a migraine on TV
I want to add to my series of blog posts the occasional post about other people and how migraine effects their lives. The first in this series comes from an event I remember from 13 years ago (I can’t believe it’s been that long!). A reporter named Serene Branson was…
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Inchstones and blogrolls
In one of those humbling lessons the universe so often sends me, no sooner had I posted a negative review of the internet, than the internet gifted me with positivity. Moreover, since I only just blogged about ‘inchstones‘ and celebrating all our baby steps, I decided I should share that…
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Twitter-X for chronic pain
I’ve only been on Twitter-X for a few weeks, and it’s been a rollercoaster. On the upside, whilst there’s not a lot of coordinated community activity around #migraines (that I can find), many people have been very generous with their time and answered my questions (about things such as injectable…
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