You may or may not know that I am a published author. I wrote my first novel when I was in high school and published it years later, and last year I wrote The Essential ... Read the Post...
Working for Your Dreams if You Have Health Issues
If you were to ask my family, ex-boyfriends, and friends what my worst quality is, they would probably say that I can be extremely stubborn. Now, I'm also self-aware enough ... Read the Post...
July Blog Traffic Report
It feels like my journey to 20,000 unique pageviews on Google Analytics has featured more struggle and frustration than not. There have been plenty of things that have been ... Read the Post...
July 2016 Favorites
I feel like I'm constantly talking about how shocked I am at how fast time in moving. I have this theory that it always feels that way because as you go on, each week/month ... Read the Post...
Why I Can’t Stop Journaling
Why I Can't Stop Journaling If I stopped carrying my journal everywhere with me, I would lose a quintessential part of myself. My friends can tell you that I always carry ... Read the Post...
Living with Arthritis: My Goals for a Positive and Happy Life
As I talked about last week, just because my arthritis has brought a lot of negative things to my life doesn't meant that it hasn't brought some positive changes, too. But ... Read the Post...
2016 So Far
You asked, so I'm delivering - the most common post request in the 2016 survey was for more of my personal life, so today I'm going to talk a bit more about my life, my year ... Read the Post...
How My Raging Autoimmune Disease Positively Changed My Life
As you probably know, I have rheumatoid arthritis. When I was diagnosed, I had 58 affected joints, and I've never gone below 52. What you may not know is that rheumatoid ... Read the Post...
What To Ask in a Reader Survey
A key part of writing for an audience is understanding what that audience wants to read about. I blog for me and I write about what I want to write about, but it doesn't ... Read the Post...
Don’t Overuse Exclamation Points
It's time talk about one of my biggest grammatical pet peeves - when people overuse exclamation points. As a writer and a reader - of both books and online sources like blogs ... Read the Post...
My Everyday Makeup Routine
If you follow my Snapchat at all (katebmitchell if you haven't already followed!), you know due to my copious selfies describing my makeup that I like makeup an awful ... Read the Post...
June Blog Traffic Report
The good news is that I finally finished my first year of grad school! The bad news is that I won't really be caught up on blogging things until next week due to working, ... Read the Post...
10 Tips To Manage Your Chronic Pain This Summer
We are fully into summer, the time of vacations, sun, and warmth. But regardless of your summer plans - including long weekends and weeks off - your chronic pain won't take a ... Read the Post...
2016 Reader Survey + Giveaway
Hello! If you don't follow me on social media, you may have missed why I disappeared. As I've mentioned before, the last arthritis treatment I tried did not work, ... Read the Post...
Birthday Beauty Buys and Reviews
As you may or may not know if you follow me on Twitter, after my birthday, I went on a Sephora shopping spree. This means that you get a haul post! So here's what I got and ... Read the Post...