June 15, 2023 Columns by Benjamin Hofmeister It’s not what I expected, being a parent with a disability Einstein said that time is relative, and as I age (gracefully, I hope), Iāve found that to be true. For example, I frequently find myself referring to events that occurred a decade or more in the past as happening ājust the other day.ā In my mind, I’m still…
August 18, 2022 Columns by Benjamin Hofmeister My MS Makes Getting Sick With a Viral Infection 10 Times Worse School started last week for our three kids. They got to see friends from the last school year, meet their new teachers, and sit at a new desk in their new classrooms. Per tradition, there was no homework assigned the first week, but they still brought home plenty of papers…
April 8, 2022 Columns by Jamie Hughes ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay,’ and Thatās OK In the South, we have a tendency to cram words together to create a single gigantic one, a kind of linguistic Pangea, if you will. The one Iāve been using a lot lately is āusetacould,ā a condensed form of the phrases āI used to be able toā and āI once…
November 24, 2021 Columns by Beth Ullah MS and Fertility: Conflicts of the Heart and Mind āRock bottom is the end of what wasnāt true enough. Begin again and build something Truer.” ā Glennon Doyle The first of our four pregnancy losses were our twin daughters in 2013, which happened nearly halfway through my pregnancy. Three years later, the first symptoms appeared that would eventually would…
March 5, 2021 Columns by Jamie Hughes This Is What Love Looks Like Last night, as I was grumpily prowling through a pile of overpriced red and white striped hats looking for one that would fit my fifth grader, I asked myself, Why exactly am I doing this again? I already knew the answer. The next day was Read Across America Day,…
January 11, 2019 Columns by Jamie Hughes Focus on the Flowers, Not the Weeds Ah, itās a new year. And what would a new year be without a few resolutions and goals to kick it off? Rather than a set of instructions, a plan, or a few words of encouragement, however, Iāll just tell you about a little something thatās going on in…
July 27, 2018 Columns by John Connor The Graduate The queue to get into Canterbury Cathedral in bright sunshine seems endless. The quandary of being Dracula strikes me ā I’ll either fry in the sun or fry in a church set up during the Roman occupation of Britain! Luckily my condition is MS, so we seek solace…
March 21, 2018 Columns by Cathy Chester Teach Your Children Well As an advocate for the multiple sclerosis community, people often ask me what itās like being a mother while living with MS. My quick response is, “Joyous!” But I understand the questioner is looking for something more. They want to know how to…