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    • INVISIBLE IN TAIWAN: Living in Taipei with Chronic Illness
    • 70 Facts About My Invisible Illness You Might Not Know [UPDATED JAN 2021]
    • Chronic Illness: Never Did I Ever Think…
    • The Cost of Chronic Illness and Maintaining An Income When You Are Chronically Ill
    • Advocacy and Volunteer Work When You Are Chronically Ill
    • Coping With Stress And Chronic Illness During a Pandemic
    • Failing, Succeeding, Pausing, Deciding and Thriving with Chronic Illness
    • Life with COVID19 and Chronic Illness in Taiwan
  • CHRONIC PAIN
    • How To Be A Friend To Someone Living With Chronic Pain
    • Chronic Illness – Pacing For Pain Management [Updated 2020]
    • Let’s Talk About Pain – Chronic Pain Awareness Month
    • Invisible Disabilities Awareness – Did You Know?
    • 8 Women in Pain Health Bloggers You Should Follow
    • Chronic Pain Quotes That Pain Patients Can Relate To
    • Traditional Chinese Medicine: My Experience With Cupping
    • Traditional Chinese Medicine: My Experience With Scraping
  • ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS
    • World Arthritis Day – Why It Matters To Me – Arthritis Everywhere
    • Ankylosing Spondylitis Ten Years After Diagnosis
    • What Happened When I Stopped Taking My Meds
    • Surviving the Holidays with Chronic Illness – Tips and Tricks
  • FIBROMYALGIA
    • What Is A Flare?
    • My Flare Survival Kit
    • FIBROMYALGIA IN TAIWAN – What You Need To Know
    • Living Within The Limitations of Fibromyalgia
    • Learning to Love Your Chronically Ill Body
    • Jinshin Jyutsu for Fibromyalgia (2016)
    • Fibro? What? A New Diagnosis – 2014
  • ME / CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME
    • May Momentum and World MECFS Day on May 12 – MILLIONS MISSING
    • BELIEVE US: Invisible Illness Awareness Week
  • MSW INTERVIEWS
  • Art Therapy For Chronic Pain
    • Art and Migraine: An Interview with Amanda Ingrassia
    • Art Therapy for Chronic Illness Interview with Karen Fitch
    • Art Therapy Interview with Rachael Nicholson
    • Art Therapy for Arthritis – Interview with Professional Artist Jennifer Walker
    • Art Therapy for Chronic Pain – Interview with Jeane Trend-Hill
  • WORLD OF BOOKS
    • My Several Worlds: 10 Powerful Non Fiction Books in 2020
      • MSW Chats with LP Writer Joshua Samuel Brown
    • Carrie’s Top 10 Non Fiction Books of 2019
    • My Favorite Reads of 2018
    • My Favorite Books in 2017
    • My Favorite Books From 2016
    • My GoodReads Book Challenge 2014 – My Top 10 Books
    • Attention Book Lovers: Visit the Taiwan Book Festival on April 23-24, 2011 at Huashan Culture Park!
    • REVIEW Spinning Karma: A Buddhist Comedy by Joshua Samuel Brown
    • Book Review: Lord of Formosa
    • Book Review: Formosa Moon by Joshua Samuel Brown and Stephanie Huffman
    • Book Review: Conquering Mountains: How To Solo Travel the World Fearlessly
    • Book Review: Do’s and Don’ts in Taiwan

Category: Central Taiwan

Taiwan's Pollution Problem
04 MAR

Pollution in Taiwan – Is It Bad? YES, IT’S BAD!

Air pollution in Taiwan is a serious matter than many of us have complained about for years. It causes no end of health problems to everyone living here.

Posted in: Central Taiwan, EXPAT LIFE, New Taipei City, Northern Taiwan, Southern Taiwan, Taipei, TaiwanTagged: chronic illness, health in Taiwan, living in Taipei, living in Taiwan, pollution, Taipei pollution, Temples4 CommentsCarrie Kellenberger March 4, 2018
Suao Cold Springs in Taiwan
08 NOV

Yilan is Magic – Hot Spring Action in Yilan

Taiwan’s tourism hotspots are finally getting the recognition they deserve. Taroko Gorge…Yilan. What? Yes,
Yilan is magic and Yilan is off the tourist map.

Posted in: Central Taiwan, EXPAT LIFE, FEATURES, TRAVEL ADVICETagged: Jiaoxi, Joshua Samuel Brown, YilanLeave a commentCarrie Kellenberger November 8, 2015
06 MAR

Photo Moment: Little Taiwan in Penghu County

This is Little Taiwan. It’s a slab of rock that is typically visible at low tide on the island of Cimei (Qimei) in Penghu County, Taiwan. It’s famous because of its resemblance to the shape of Taiwan itself.

Posted in: Central Taiwan, FEATURES, TaiwanTagged: Little Taiwan, Penghu, Penghu IslandsCommentCarrie Kellenberger March 6, 2014
Penghu's Basalt Rock Formations
02 JUL

Travel Penghu: Penghu’s Basalt Rock Formations

The Penghu Islands in Taiwan are well known for their unique geological terrain. The southeast part of the Penghu archipelago boasts unique rock formations.

Posted in: Central Taiwan, TaiwanTagged: archipelagos, Islands, National Parks, national parks in Taiwan, Taiwan National Parks, The Pescadores, Where We've Been4 CommentsCarrie Kellenberger July 2, 2011
Taiwanese Street Vendor and Taiwanese Street Food
09 MAR

A Guide To Taiwanese Street Food

A glutton’s complete guide to Taiwanese street food and eating out in Taiwan night markets. Eating out at a nightmarket is a national pastime in Taiwan.

Posted in: Central Taiwan, CULTURAL TRAVEL, FEATURES, Northern Taiwan, Southern Taiwan, Taipei, TaiwanTagged: Asian street food, living in Asia, Night Markets, Taipei nightlife, Taiwan night markets, Taiwanese culture, Taiwanese food, Taiwanese street foodCarrie Kellenberger March 9, 2011
Fu Dog and Taiwanese Temple
22 JAN

100 Fun Things To Do in Taiwan! Visit Penghu!

Postcards from Penghu! Please vote for my entry in the 100 Fun Things to Do in Taiwan contest!

Posted in: Central Taiwan, CULTURAL TRAVEL, FEATURES, TaiwanTagged: archipelagos, Beaches, Chimei Island, Islands, Jibei Island, Penghu, Penghu Islands, Temples, The Pescadores, Wangan Island7 CommentsCarrie Kellenberger January 22, 2011
14 OCT

Travel Taiwan: Seeking Sun Moon Lake

MSW guest blogger Ava Apollo shares her favorite attractions in Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan.

Posted in: Central Taiwan, TaiwanTagged: lakes, Sun Moon Lake, Taichung, Taiwanese temples8 CommentsGuest Writers October 14, 2010
Taiwanese Fried Chicken
05 MAY

Taiwanese Deep-Fried Chicken

Taiwanese deep-fried chicken is a popular night market snack. Taiwan has perfected the art of producing chicken dipped in batter with herbs and spices.

Posted in: Central Taiwan, FEATURES, Northern Taiwan, Southern Taiwan, Taipei, TaiwanTagged: culture, Food, Street Food, Taiwan night markets, Taiwanese street food5 CommentsCarrie Kellenberger May 5, 2010
20 FEB

Photo Moment: Night Market Food Vendor

Photo by Carrie Kellenberger

Posted in: Central Taiwan, Northern Taiwan, Southern Taiwan, Taipei, TaiwanTagged: Night Markets, Taiwan night markets, Wanderfood8 CommentsCarrie Kellenberger February 20, 2010
09 SEP

Wangan Island, Penghu, Taiwan

Wangan Island in Penghu, Taiwan isn’t just known for its spectacular scenery. This beautiful little island in the Penghu Archipelago is also a sea turtle conservation area and a historical heritage site.

Posted in: Central Taiwan, TaiwanTagged: Penghu, Penghu Islands, The Pescadores8 CommentsCarrie Kellenberger September 9, 2009

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1,020 pages of history with the tiniest print ever 1,020 pages of history with the tiniest print ever! 🤓😫

This will probably be my longest book in 2021 and I'm glad I'm done. It took close to two months to finish it. 

With detailed biographies like this, witnessing the scope of a person's life and how they change over the decades is so eye-opening. 

Who was the last famous person you read about? 
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UNHAULED. This is my February stack and these book UNHAULED. This is my February stack and these books are being shipped out now that I've read them.

QOTD: Do you keep all your books?

I give most of mine away.
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Many thanks @tobetterdays_ for a trial pack of the Many thanks @tobetterdays_ for a trial pack of their joint and muscle health patches. I use a lot of pain patches in Taiwan. 

Thanks for running an amazing holiday giveaway, @achronicvoice. So happy I won these!

I liked these because there is no smell and the stiffness in my back started to relax a bit within 30 minutes. I kept it on for 24 hours - the recommended amount of time. These deliver a strong dose of vitamin D to the affected area. 

I'm allergic to adhesive and that was my only concern using these. I didn't have any problems at all. It was also easy to remove and left no residue.

I'll consider purchasing if I can get them easily in Taiwan.
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Drama, betrayal, religion, and sex. Gonna be a goo Drama, betrayal, religion, and sex. Gonna be a good one!

QOTD: Do you have a favorite Queen or Royal that you like learning about? 
AOTD: I like learning about all of them. 😂
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The beautiful things we find in second-hand books. The beautiful things we find in second-hand books. This is 1,020 pages and I've found a Remembrance Day bookmark and two pressed flowers in it. 

A piece of home from Canada! 
🇨🇦❤🇨🇦 Now in Taiwan. 🇹🇼❤🇹🇼

I bought this book at Alison The Bookman's shop in North Bay in July 2018.

Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph Lash. I like political biographies! Are you a fan?
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Sick selfie: Battling another costo attack. (Rib a Sick selfie: Battling another costo attack. (Rib and sternum inflammation) These attacks hit with no warning.

I 'woke up' this morning and the chest pain was so bad, I thought I was having a heart attack. It took a good 40 mins before I could sit up, and it's been hitting off and on all day. (The pain is constant, but it escalates throughout the day.) 

Costo attacks are the worst at night. They are impossible to sleep through, so you sweat it all night and then have to get through the day with the same pain on no sleep. 

Past experience with costo attacks shows they can last a few days, a few weeks, or months. A great number of AS and fibro patients suffer from costo. 

To date, I haven't found anything that helps aside from complete rest. It's one of my worst symptoms and now I'm in waiting mode until I can pop my sternum. 

It's #HeartMonth in the US and I'm mentioning this for another reason. I'm raising awareness for AS patients because we also have to worry about heart problems due to chronic inflammation. 

Chronic inflammation is a silent killer.
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I get pretty peeved if people fold pages down for I get pretty peeved if people fold pages down for a bookmark. 😱 What about you? 

But THIS is pretty and does no harm. 

How many bookmarks do you own? I have a massive collection. 🥳

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This was my LYN read and it begins during Lunar Ne This was my LYN read and it begins during Lunar New Year celebrations in Asia. (I read a book within the season and every year as part of my reading challenge.)

It is a beautiful and haunting read about the comfort women of Singapore and their lives under Japanese occupation in Singapore 1942. 

Many thanks to @bookdepository for awarding one of my Bookstar entries in 2020 with free books. Looking forward to the next challenge. 🎋 Back to work for all tomorrow.
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Spoonie Community: How much rest do you personally Spoonie Community: How much rest do you personally need each day? 

I need many hours to do basic daily things around the house. If I want to go out, that turns into days of rest before and after each two-hour activity. 

Still resting from my Valentine's Day outing, but I put a clean shirt on today. That's progress! (SPOONIE HUMOR)

Tagging a few Spoonie friends to get the convo going. 
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Happy Valentine's Day, friends. Sending love to yo Happy Valentine's Day, friends. Sending love to you from Taiwan. 🇹🇼❤
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🇨🇦🇹🇼 Book mail from Canada to Taiwan! 🇨🇦🇹🇼
Book mail from Canada to Taiwan! 
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I've known Sarah since uni and I love that our friendship is still going strong.

I love that I have a Canadian memoir here that can't be found anywhere else in Taiwan. Very excited to read this! (Also, there is nothing like getting a REAL Christmas card. The xmas cards here are terrible. This feels like home to me.)

Do your friends send you books?

I get them from all over the world and it makes me smile so hard!
Lucky red satin pajamas and lucky cat for the firs Lucky red satin pajamas and lucky cat for the first day of the Year of the Ox! 🎆

Still resting. I cancelled everything this month except for a date tomorrow night for Valentine's Day! Wish me LOVE!

If you've wondered how to support people like me, here are a few things you can do that are super easy and require no effort. 

Let's start the Year of the Ox off by supporting each other!

🧚‍♀️How to help: #RAOK 🧚‍♀️

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Happy Lunar New Year! 
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What do you do when you see a public bookstack and What do you do when you see a public bookstack and one book is upside and in the wrong color section? 

DO YOU FIX IT? 
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Have you read any books about Taiwan? If not, this Have you read any books about Taiwan? If not, this is the book for you! 

LINK IN BIO 

Spinning Karma by Joshua Samuel Brown is a politically-charged and spiritual adventure through the streets of #Taipei

A great deal of this novel is set in Taiwan, but Brown is a keen observer of life in China and the US as well. He darts back and forth mostly between Taiwan and the US, taking humorous pokes at each culture and at people’s willingness to believe everything they see and read while using today’s media landscape as his place for action. 

You’d think this might be a long drawn-out tale given that the central topics to this book are religion, international relationships between countries, a media scandal, and a boisterous trip to Taipei.

Brown does it in 240 pages of light-hearted comedy.

‘NAMASTAY’, RINPOCHE SCHWARTZ

The story begins with Schwartz as an acolyte of Mind of Pure Enlightenment. (MOPE) When a video surfaces showing members and their MOPE leader engaged in an orgy, MOPE is all but lost until its guru decides to retreat from society and take a 25-year vow of silence after naming Schwartz as the new Rinpoche.

Henceforth, the novel moves swiftly into Schwartz’s mid-life crisis as he bumbles his way through life. Rinpoche Schwartz begins his leadership by moving away from sex-cult shenanigans and towards more Buddhist teachings, but MOPE is not drawing the acolytes it once had.

Eventually Schwartz decides to spend some time in #Taiwan reconnecting with his estranged son Burroughs. But as soon as he lands, trouble starts to brew when he takes over teaching his son’s class for a few days. Suddenly, a seemingly harmless video has gone viral on Schwartz’s YouTube channel and Schwartz is nowhere to be found.

Entertaining, funny, and & thought provoking, Spinning Karma is 100% original and laugh-out-loud funny.

Spinning Karma highlights today’s mainstream media landscape and the narratives it spins out to hungry readers that choose to believe the spin rather than actual facts surrounding news stories.
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February ''Hell Month' - Feeling awful. One week February ''Hell Month' - Feeling awful.

One week into February and I haven't gotten out of bed much. The mystery of why I get sick every Feb continues with no clear reason. I can trace these episodes back to August 2014. February, August, and November are the worst months of my year. I have years of proof in journal entries and test results.

Has anyone else noticed monthly patterns to chronic illness? Do you have specific months throughout the year that are worse than others? 

It has been so bad the last four years, I've gotten into the habit of not planning for anything except rest. 

Who else gets tired of trying to connect the dots? 

Let's review the main trigger list for fibro and AS patients: 

➡️ STRESS? No. 
➡️ACTIVITY-RELATED? Doubtful unless this is payback from two weeks ago, but this doesn't account for yearly episodes 
➡️HORMONES? Maybe, but that doesn't work with every year. 
➡️TEMPERATURE and WEATHER? Maybe. Taiwan is famous for extreme temperature lows and highs 
➡️POLLUTION? Maybe since Feb and March are notorious for bad air in Taiwan 
➡️TRAVEL or CHANGES IN SCHEDULE? Definitely not. I can rule this out completely since the COVID19 pandemic means no travel 
➡️TREATMENT? Same. No. 
➡️DIET? Same. No. 
➡️SLEEP? I'd say no since I am not having any unusual sleep problems outside of my primary insomnia 

So what is it? A medical mystery, indeed. 🤷‍♀️
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Book Mail! The perfect moment to showcase my monst Book Mail! The perfect moment to showcase my monstera! 🌿😁

What do you wish this package had in it?
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'Twas a good winter read', she said to herself. W 'Twas a good winter read', she said to herself.

What's up next on your TBR shelf?
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Migraine Awareness: More than just a headache! Gl Migraine Awareness: More than just a headache!

Glad I prepped ahead because hell is coming and it will be with me within the hour. I've got it down to a tee. Hope it has let up a bit for my hospital appointment tomorrow.

When fibro kicked in, disabling migraines became a regular part of my life. Close to 36% of fibromyalgia patients suffer from migraine attacks.

Do you get migraines? What do you do when a migraine attacks?
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I read 📚 AND 📢 I advocate for chronic illnes I read 📚 AND 📢 I advocate for chronic illness like Beth Harmon plays chess. ♟

I do my best work in my tie dye awareness pajamas: blue for Ankylosing Spondylitis and purple for fibromyalgia. 💙💜

What is your game? How strong is your game?

Whatever it is, just do it! 

PS ➡️ The book is always better. What a fantastic weekend read.
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#January2021 #Reads "There are women's stories h #January2021 #Reads 

"There are women's stories here, stories of resilience, love, and strength... I want to to tell these stories because they matter, because I'm afraid they will be forgotten, because they have the power to make this community visible." 
― Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains by Cassie Chambers 

QOTD1: What was your favorite book this month?
QOTD2: Have you read any books on my list? 

12 books in January 2021
✔ 4 non fiction (4 out of 52 challenge)
🏷 4 = books off my TBR stacks 
2021 - 12

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🏷 Spinning Karma by Joshua Samuel Brown
🏷 The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
✔ Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains by Cassie Chambers 

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🏷 Red Rising by Pierce Brown
🏷 ✔ A Promised Land by Barack Obama
+ The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia
🏷 ✔ Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist by Dr. Richard Shepherd
+ The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
+ The Caregiver by Samuel Parks
+ Lakewood by Megan Giddings 

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+ Anxious People by Fredrik Backman 

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✔ This Will Only Hurt A Little by Busy Phillips
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