AT THE WATER’S EDGE:
LIVING LIFE AND LEARNING ALL I CAN ALONG THE WAY
Journey with Me
Hi there! My name is Dana. I created this space as a place to share the things I learn along this journey I call life. I am a Jesus follower, wife, twin mom and dog mom. I work in marketing/sales analytics and I’m a sort of Jane of All Trades, interested in all things nature, gardening, cooking, crafting, traveling, exploring and learning new things. This blog is a conglomeration of my interests, hobbies, life and life lessons. Thanks for stopping by!
Latest Blog Posts
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I’m trying to get into the whole idea of freezer meals — where you make larger batches of whatever you’re making and freeze some as an easy meal to reheat at a later date. I’ve been doing some of these for friends who have babies as an easy way of providing meals for them even
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At mid-May I would say that my garden this year is well beyond where it was last year at this time. Certainly, my perennial garden has progressed much differently. I think all of my tulips came in May last year, but this year they’ve been gone for a couple of weeks now! Sadly, that means
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Sometimes I go to the grocery store with all of my meals planned out for the week and an organized list of ingredients that I need. This week’s grocery shopping trip was not one of those times. I had a vague idea of what I had in the pantry, but not really any clue what
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I’m not much of a poet, but in college I had to take a creative writing class which involved writing LOTS of poetry, among other things. One of the poems I wrote was about thunderstorms—where I tried to capture my simultaneous fear and fascination of storms. I do get legitimately freaked out at a big
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It’s time for my next update to my ESR chart. You can read about the Sed Rate Saga and my switch from Enbrel to Humira to treat my rheumatoid autoimmune disease back in December. I’ve been tracking my Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR / Sed Rate) –a measure of inflammation — since that time, trying to
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A friend of mine asked me a tough question the other day. Tough in the sense that it’s hard to give a concise answer. But it got me pondering. The question posed was this: “What does your relationship with God do for you?” To compound the challenge of trying to be concise, this question was
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So, I signed up to receive prompts from WEGO Health for the Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge – it’s supposed to be one post each day. I thought it might be fun, but now I’m thinking I can’t commit to doing this every day right now. Nonetheless, I will participate where and when I can.
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Many rheumatologists have seen the benefits in measuring patient reported outcomes, rather than only relying on visible symptoms and blood tests to show disease activity and treatment efficacy (although, judging from other patients I’ve heard from, perhaps not *enough* doctors…). Patients definitely see the benefit in this as we know that we know better than
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I have been thoroughly enjoying the mild March we’ve had this year. I say mild, but what I really mean is HOT! Not only has it not been cold, but we had a couple of weeks of 70-80 degree temperatures. That’s weather we’re lucky to get in July! Needless to say, I’ve spent some time
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I was planning on the beginning of March be the start of my gardening season—meaning, I would start some seeds indoors to be transplanted into my garden after a couple months. I did start some seeds: tomatoes and several types of peppers. I also put some lettuce seeds in a container, to hopefully get an
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