Climbing my Dawn Wall
As I move along my grief journey, I continue to find the days unpredictable. Every once in a while I fall apart for no discernable...
After cancer treatment, missing the war
During the course of my cancer treatment, which from diagnosis to last day of radiation lasted about ten months, I didn’t connect with...
On cancer and courage
When you are diagnosed with cancer and go into treatment, people often find you courageous. It happens all over, with every type of...
Hey, you know, flowers.
So. Four months have passed, and four friends are gone. January – lymphoma. February – brain cancer. March – metastatic kidney cancer....
Permission to feel
I have a question, or three, for you to answer – not for me, but for yourself. What are you not giving yourself permission to feel right...
Beyond the swamp of confusion: What we CAN do about cancer
The latest doubt expressed in the cancer world is in regards to the mammogram, long (and still) the most commonly available and utilized...
Thank you, Lisa Bonchek Adams
Readers of the cancer blog I kept before I needed to add grief to the mix -- No defeat baby, no surrender -- may recall my response to...
Hijacked
One morning last week I woke up angry and with a headache, the kind that seems to live both inside and outside of your skull, enveloping...
Rethinking "I can't"
I’ve always hated to say “I can’t.” Almost as much as I hate for it to be true. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been determined to do...
The alone you want, and the alone you don't
Those of you who know me personally know how energized I am by my interactions with other people in any type of situation, professional...