To get what happened today, you have to get where I’m coming from. I was 45 years old. I had two children. I had breast cancer. My prognosis was terrible. I couldn’t think of anything else. 24/7 doesn’t even describe it. I was obsessed. Possessed. Cancer invaded my brain just like it invaded my body. […]
Character test
2009 is only a month old but it’s already shaping up to be a tough year. The economy is scary enough; but it seems as if every day I hear about someone else battling cancer. All kinds of cancer. Like a cancer chain reaction. Maybe I hear more stories than the average person because I’m a […]
Survivors of something
I don’t write a lot about cancer here–not because I don’t have enough to say, but because I have too much. Like, don’t get me started. But now it’s on my mind, thanks to some comments from yesterday. So I’ll say this, and then maybe I won’t discuss cancer again for awhile. Once my mother died of cancer, getting […]
Why me?
Tonight I talked to a friend who is going through a crisis. Her situation is completely out of my own personal experience. And yet something about the conversation felt very familiar. Her pain felt familiar. Her fear. And the question underneath: Why me? As a cancer patient, I was very familiar with this question that most […]
Beach Walk
Today is my friend Myra’s birthday. I’m not planning to make a habit of announcing birthdays. It was embarrassing enough on mine. But today is meaningful because Myra and I are taking a walk on the beach. And I feel really lucky about that. Not just lucky that we’re walking on a beach in California while some people are […]
Smelling the Roses
POST FROM THE COAST—( POSTED OCTOBER 19 BUT LOST FOR TECHNICAL REASONS) I have to confess….. I feel guilty that I get to live in such a beautiful part of the world. And I couldn’t resist posting these pictures that I took on the way to the retreat. The healing started before I […]
