Kim Fabrizio is a high-capacity person. Currently the executive assistant to the President of Edinboro University, she has held high posts at WQLN and the Erie Times-News in years past.

Kim is a person that gets things done; and she does it while battling Multiple Sclerosis.

Soon after her diagnosis in 2007 she began blogging on her widely-read blog Sunshine and Moonlight. Her honesty and upbeat tone while sharing about living with MS attracted tens of thousands of readers. However, last month a major life-change precipitated a departure from Sunshine and Moonlight and Kim began a new, even more intimate context on the new blog My Sun Still Rises.

Kim in the new blog goes much deeper into the successes and struggles of a complicated life, as she shares in last week’s post, Patching Up Life’s Problems: No Quick Fixes:

Whether single, married or now somewhere in between, I’ve always been Miss, Mrs., or Ms. Fix-It.  It’s a part of my nature to want to fix whatever is broken.  Whether a good trait or an annoying one; it’s me.  So, when life spirals out of control, the need to fix rallies to the forefront.  This is true whether it’s my own life or someone else’s that’s taken a bizarre and unpredictable turn…

…I’ve also learned that not everything can be fixed in life.  It’s OK to leave some broken things by the side of the road.  Not everything needs to be held together with super glue or even duct tape.  Sometimes we have to patch problems up as best as possible (leaving a few screws and bolts sitting off by the side when we can’t figure out where in the new table they are supposed to go anyway).

Joel is the editor of the Erie media blog Press and Tower.