Susan Pogorzelski

“As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I’m not sure that I’m going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says ‘you are nothing,’ I will be a writer.” - HUNTER S. THOMPSON - Author. It still feels so strange to associate myself with that word, though it’s what I’d always dreamed of, ever since I was a little girl and filling notebooks with everything from sappy illness stories (thanks to my Lurlene

“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming – well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.” - AMY TAN - Sometimes I think that my Lyme Disease and this book are so intertwined that I wouldn’t know how to separate the two even if I could. Everything about this past year is linked to one or the other: the book is what helped me through the darkness of the disease, while this illness is what pushed me to turn a lifelong dream into something tangible. I cried e