Sometimes I forget how much food means to people. Not just what to eat, but sharing it with others. Sitting down together and eating a meal. I also forget that most people eat whatever they want, whenever they want. (Most people don’t have Crohn’s Disease.) So when a friend of mine suggested a night out […]
What It’s Like
Learning how to recover

A couple weeks back, I went on a backpacking trip with some friends of mine. We drove far up into the mountains—there was still snow on the ground in July—and hiked a mile down into a steep mountain valley with an alpine lake. We found a picturesque spot in a meadow, nestled next to a […]