Category: Stories
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Feeling a little Picasso-ish
A little while ago, one of my blogging friends, Silver Apple Queen, left a comment on my post “Our Woven Selves” to say that when she thought about migraine metaphors, she imagined her migraines as Pablo Picasso paintings. And if you know anything about his abstract art, it’s not hard…
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Making a monster of your chronic pain
Many, many months ago I wrote about how living with chronic migraine was akin to a horror story filled with darkness and jump scares (here). Elsewhere, I suggested that one way to reduce your suffering was to imagine your migraine-mess as part of a silly sitcom rather than a horrible…
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Serena Williams and her migraine meds
Serena Williams, tennis-player extraordinaire, has been in my news feed quite a lot lately. Seeing her name reminded me of a little itch in the back of my mind about a story from 2024… something to do with migraines… medicine… and complaints… I went looking, and here’s the first article…
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Feeling lost… and found
Only a brief post today…. and a trigger warning since I talk about death… * * * * * While I was down the coast some time ago, I went to the beach to walk the dogs. I wasn’t in a great mood. I knew that a walk on the…
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Darwinian migraine madness
Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution is often summarized down to a key concept: “survival of the fittest”. Given this fact, I have often wondered why – given how much migraine reduces functionality – why has migraine not been “bred out” of humanity…? Surely when our ancient ancestors needed to pack…
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Lessons learnt from Icarus
When I was young, I was an enormous fan of Greek Myths and Legends. I was in awe of Zeus on Mt Olympus looking down on humanity, and adored the idea of Apollo, the sun-god riding a gilded chariot across the skies. Soon, single words were enough to conjure up…
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Bellamy Young flying the flag for migraines
As an Australian, it seems a bit hit and miss what news we receive from other countries around the world. Some things that appear in my news feed appear “brand new” to me, but turn out to have been around for a while. For example, the Headache Alliance is “a…
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The job interview I won… and lost.
Whilst I trained as an architect, for most of my working life I have been employed as a retail project manager. Which means; I helped build retail stores. When I first started out, I rolled-out many, many small retail stores for a particular chain, each store about 100sqm (about 1000…
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“What the heck is water?”
In 2005, novelist David Foster Wallace gave the commencement address to Kenyon College. Titled “This is Water”, the speech was well received on the day but seemed to take on a life of its own for years afterwards, going on to be dubbed one of the best… even though it…
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