Private Chef, Writer & Podcaster
As a chef, writer, and lifelong bookworm living with chronic illness, I’ve discovered that my Kindle isn’t just a gadget—it’s freedom. Between hospital visits, late-night writing sessions, and lazy Sundays with my pets, it lets me carry an entire library in my pocket without the weight or the guilt of unread stacks. Here’s why I’ll always choose my Kindle over physical books and why e-readers might be the best invention since espresso.
Today at Whole Foods, I found myself an unwilling spectator to a tense confrontation. I had parked in a designated grocery pickup spot, waiting for my online order, when I noticed a black Tesla pull into the handicapped space next to me. A woman in her thirties parked, hung her handicapped tag, stepped out, grabbed …
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I’m a chef, husband, pet-parent, and emerging novelist living with pulmonary sarcoidosis, heart failure and the wild ride of long-term prednisone treatment. If you’re juggling a chronic illness, creative ambitions and ordinary life chaos—you’re in the right place. Let’s talk survival, cooking, writing and finding hope in the hidden kitchen of chronic illness.
After six months of delayed shipments, missing meds, and endless insurance headaches, I finally ditched Amazon’s PillPack and went back to my local pharmacy. If you live with chronic illness or juggle multiple prescriptions, here’s what you should know before trusting your meds to a mail-order pharmacy.
Upon amassing a considerable following within the Twitter writing community, the algorithm concluded that I was not a human user, leading to the permanent suspension of my account, which cannot be appealed.
Tate Basildon 