Lisa Marie Basile

It can really take a toll on you when you have to parent a parent.

When you hear about a person with a chronic illness working or not working or considering quitting a job, these decisions were not made lightly.

This is the one time of year, Scorpio Season (Oct. 23 to Nov. 22), when getting a little closer and looking a little deeper is, in some ways, inevitable.

Remember that your body is you, it is not separate. Treat it, yourself, with love. You’re a body of magic.

Is there a certain quality to letter writing or diary keeping that inspires the confessional? I believe so.

Like a lot of people with chronic illness or autoimmune/autoinflammatory disorders, I went through a dead-end labyrinth to get my diagnosis.

The sum of a city isn’t always made up of its parts.

Some grief is inert. Some grief is an engine. Sometimes actively participating in grief, I’ve learned, is one small way we can learn to escape its riptide.