Rosalind Lovelace

Series

Bits & Pieces

Short, funny pieces on what fibromyalgia is actually like. Twenty-five everyday metaphors.

Series

The Physics of Healing

Ten essays pairing real physics with fibromyalgia research through analogy and published group findings.

Series

Metaphors I Can’t Stand

Seven short essays taking apart the metaphors that make fibromyalgia sound manageable: spoons, fog, the volume knob, the one-to-ten scale.

Series

The Patient’s Fortress

Forty-two articles for fibromyalgia patients under family siege: medical privacy, fog-proof scripts, boundaries, and calm plans for the fights at home.

Column

The Uninvited Editor

A writer’s column about the outside voices that climb into a draft and edit before the sentence is finished.

Play

Surely You’re Braiding, Mr. Feynman!

A one-act play: Feynman hosts Ockham, Weyl, Kolmogorov, Rissanen, Koopman, and von Neumann at the Caltech Athenaeum — seven thinkers, one bottle, and a cocktail napkin that braids physics into a thesis.

Essay

From I Braid to Nature Braids

From a fibromyalgia diagnosis through physics essays and ancient Greek to the Feynman play — from πλέκω (I braid) to ἡ φύσις πλέκει (nature braids).