Spoonie Food Review: Dominex Eggplant Cutlets with recipe

Spoonie Food Review: Dominex Eggplant Cutlets with recipe

I love recipes that make me look like an excellent chef, but that really are very little work. This recipe and eggplant product are healthy too, so it makes this even better! Although the breaded eggplant might be slightly more money then if you did it yourself, I personally love this product becaus

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The Gluten Free Diva: Wellaby's Cheese Ups

The Gluten Free Diva: Wellaby’s Cheese Ups

I know all my fellow gluten free friends can relate to having 5 items you totally miss the most and would pick to eat if given a day to freely digest the G word. My husband thinks I’m crazy, but one of my most missed items is Cheez-It® Crackers. I have loved them since eating them at the kitchen

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The University of BYDLS

The University of BYDLS

I recently started dating a new guy--we'll call him "T". He’s going to a local university for his Master's in Industrial Engineering. He's from India, where he did his undergrad work. Our first date was spent talking of current events, religions, cultural differences, and politics. I always hold m

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Christine Miserandino featured in Scleroderma Voice Magazine Summer Edition

Christine Miserandino featured in Scleroderma Voice Magazine Summer Edition

It was an honor to be interviewed by Christina Relacion from the Scleroderma Foundation for their Summer edition of Scleroderma Voice magazine. It is a true testament to the fact that "The Spoon Theory" now has a much wider audience then just lupus patients as I originally thought. The chronically i

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Christine speaks to Tim Abbott of

Christine speaks to Tim Abbott of “Technical Difficulties” of Resonance FM in London!

 I had the opportunity to speak with Tim Abbott of the radio show "Technical Difficulties". He is a great guy, so easy to speak to that the time just flew! Technical Difficulties is a weekly radio show about disability on Resonance 104.4 FM in London at 3.30pm on Fridays. Technical Difficulties is

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See Christine July 31, 2011 Blues on the Bay for Lupus - Maritime Museum Long Island, NY

See Christine July 31, 2011 Blues on the Bay for Lupus – Maritime Museum Long Island, NY

  Grab the kids, Bring your friends, and enjoy the day by the bay! Blues on the Bay for Lupus, Sunday, July 31st at the Long Island Maritime Museum in Sayville. 86 West Avenue, West Sayville, NY *This is a rain or shine event. It was so much fun last year to meet a few new "lupus friend

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Watch the video from the #140conf State of Now in NYC where Christine spoke about Lupus

Watch the video from the #140conf State of Now in NYC where Christine spoke about Lupus

I spoke on June 16th at the #140conf in NYC with Amanda Greene, Brenda Blackmon, and Kelly Dawn. Our panel was called "the lupus ladies of twitter". We spoke about how social media has not only brought us together as a panel from across the country, but about how social media (twitter, facebook, ema

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Movie Review:

Movie Review: “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2”

At long last, the final film in the Harry Potter franchise has hit the theatres. I went with a friend who had seen all the previous movies but had not read the books upon which they were based, and his wife who had seen the movies and read all the books but not recently. We viewed the regular versio

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Walking The Line

Walking The Line

Lines are funny things. You either cross a line or not. The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. They can be sharp or fuzzy and can keep you going on the right path. The wrong line can appear to be the right way but lead you to a dead end or detour. What does all this line talk h

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It's No Big Deal?

It’s No Big Deal?

Lately I’ve been getting the impression from some of my friends that maybe my growing list of chronic illnesses is no big deal. No one is actually coming out and saying these words, but that is definitely the feeling I’m getting. This point could be debatable. Maybe they think that. Maybe I’m

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