Booked on a Feeling

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Kathryn M. B. Johnson I’m Kathryn M. Bowman Johnson, and most of my writing begins in a recliner in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. I live with fibromyalgia, degenerative disc disease, arthritis, bipolar disorder, and for more than six years I was my mother’s primary caregiver. During that time, my husband and I also took in our great-grandson when he was nine months old. He calls me Mom, and he is one of the brightest parts of my life. For decades, I tried to push through my pain without talking about it. I worked, I said yes to everything I could, and I tried to pretend my body was not breaking down. When my mother moved in, and my health worsened, the pace I had kept for years finally

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