Art by Natalie Dee


I've had a cold since Thursday. Couldn't talk at all on Saturday and most of yesterday. My throat and lungs hurt so much from coughing that I half expect to start hacking up bits of lung tissue any time now.

I'm not very good at the whole "offer it up" thing. I whine a lot when I'm sick. That means I'm going to be doing a lot of whining in the next few months, because my husband's office is in an elementary school and he brings home all those kid-germs. We were sick almost every month from September to March last school year. Yay cold and flu season!