Loved both The Center Cannot Hold & The Collected Schizophrenia Essays! How did you find the Rensin book?

@Danne Jobin god how I miss writing in coffee shops!

@Ainna Flaminia Brilliant! There used to the Coffitivity app but somehow lost track of it. I just checked and it still exists! I'm stoked!!! Thanks for your comment that lead me to check <3 Here's the app in case you'd like to check it out: https://coffitivity.com/

@Sara Habein I've also had ME/CFS for a long time (maybe 25+yrs?, hard to pinpoint). In the past few years though, I've progressed from mild-moderate to moderate/severe and your saying "relearning how to write" is exactly what I feel like I'm doing these days too. Heck, just yesterday I was trying to write a blog post and 2 paragraphs in my brain just noped on out - super frustrating as I'm sadly sure you understand.

Hi, I’m Kat. I’ve joined The Café because being a writer with limitations is hard and lonely. I live in a sweet little brick house on a hill that is currently covered in snow - a lovely treat to see out my window. My favorite book… should I say The Vampire Lestat because it was the first novel that pulled me in deep enough that part of me still finds myself occasionally thinking, “I wonder what Lestat is up to these days,” or should I say The Four Agreements because reading it was a pivotal moment in my journey to freedom from narcissist abuse, or should I choose Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation by Eli Claire because it was the first memoir that felt like the kind of memoir I want to write, in the shape I want I also want my words to form? I’m interested in crafting memoir pieces that weave my personal stories into the larger societal story of how women, and disabled women in particular, are othered and objectified.