The Chronically ill Creative

Welcome to my blog, The Chronically Ill Creative! My name is Miranda, and I am so happy to have you here!

That image up there is generated by AI, but represents the style of art I create. It’s whimsical and fun, and not at all representative of my real life! LOL!

I live with fibromyalgia, a devastatingly painful and unpredictable “condition” that rules every aspect of my life. I never know from one day to the next how I will be feeling, whether that will be minor pain I can ignore, or pain that leaves me on the couch under a heated blanket with my dogs and moving only when absolutely necessary.

Regardless, at my heart I am a creative person. I MUST create. I have no clue how there are people who aren’t driven to express themselves in some creative way or another. My interests are widely varied. I paint, draw, collage, write, journal, crochet, knit, and love creative planning. If you don’t know what any of those are, you’re in luck! I’ll be sharing them here.

I recently closed down a stationery business I had called Miranda Has Plans. I created cute, whimsical stickers based usually on my dogs and whatever interest I had at the time. Fibromyalgia robbed me of that endeavor. I just couldn’t keep up with it. It required much more of my time and energy than my body could consistently maintain. It threw me into a deep depression.

This blog is my way to climb out of that.

Thank you for reading this far. If this sounds like something you’d like to read, give me a subscribe. Let’s connect about all this stuff I call a creative life.

Love,

Miranda, The Chronically Ill Creative