My Rare Disease Part 6: Pride
Back to Part 5: Dignity ~ We developed a routine. After talking to the doctor each morning, my mother called my employers to let them know that I n
Without Words
This excerpt from my memoir first published in Outside In Literary and Travel Magazine. ~ Kneeling between the leaders at the front of the lines, I watched my dad struggle to restrain Little Lefty as he clutched the chain around her neck and ran from the truck to the sled, where Nick waited to hook
My Rare Disease Part 7: Tests
Back to Part 6: Pride ~ At night, the nurses took blood samples to monitor my condition. They came in every couple of hours, beginning at 11:00 p.m
My Rare Disease Part 5: Dignity
Back to Part 4: Specter ~ My mother would later tell me that she’d seen in my eyes a look she had only seen twice before in her life—once in my
My Rare Disease Part 4: Specter
Back to Part 3: Stomach Virus ~ The next couple of days were a blur. I didn’t get any better. I lost more energy and more weight than I imagined
My Rare Disease Part 3: Stomach Virus
Back to Part 2: A History of Anxiety ~ On Christmas day after I moved back to Pennsylvania, I was still under the weather and unable to eat much of
My Rare Disease Part 2: A History of Anxiety
Back to Part 1: Sick ~ It started again, one week before Christmas. At first I wasn’t so worried about shedding a couple of pounds since I’d ga
My Rare Disease Part 1: Sick
My Rare Disease ~ How do you write about being sick? What can you possibly say in an effort to share and educate without annihilating every sub-at
MUSH: A journey …
When I was twenty-eight years old, I moved across the country to support my boyfriend’s dream of becoming a dog musher. Nick and I traveled from
Coronology Cover
Coronology is my final design for Etruscan Press this season, and we were lucky enough to secure permission to use one of Malcolm Young’s drawings f
Hand me downs
I must have been about sixteen when my mother happened upon The Carrot Cake recipe. I have no idea where the recipe came from—probably one of the â€
Tara Caimi is an independent writer and editor with a B.A. in journalism and an M.F.A. in creative writing. Her essays, stories, and articles have appeared in journals and magazines including the Writer\'s Chronicle, The MacGuffin, Fire & Knives, and Oh Comely magazine.
