Honestly it is crappy to go through chemo at any time of year but especially at the holidays when there are so many reasons to be in large groups of people and all you want to do is stay well … Read More
This month is interesting to me–I am redirecting my life and finding what I need to be doing to feel fulfilled. I spent time fighting cancer and raising my girls and being a wife and while I still do the … Read More
So yesterday I hit another milestone–6 years ago I had life saving surgery and began my journey as a breast cancer survivor and if you have read my blog you know how passive I think that sounds. I had to … Read More
About a year ago I started back to yoga. I wanted to get back to what it had always given me and I wanted to move more into meditation. So I went back to class. Sometimes a teacher will suggest … Read More
6 years ago today I heard the words, “you have cancer.” I had no idea how things would turn out –somethings turned out better than I imagined and some things far worse. I made a determination that cancer would be … Read More
Medical studies–One in ten, one in 20, one in 100—sounds like your chances for a disease are actually small. Look around the people you are in line with at the market or bank and 1 in 8 means clearly it … Read More
I chose my blog name because that is what I wanted it to be–my story right now–not in two weeks not yesterday but here and now. So I blog about what I create, what I do to improve my life … Read More
A long time ago on an island in the Caribbean I met a young actor named Daniel Quinn. We were studying with Sanford Meisner for a month in the most exhausting intensive class I ever took. I was 22 and … Read More
It is an article online that came through my fb feed. It paints so clearly in a few simple words the absolute isolation of cancer treatment. Here it is: The article –Now for what I thought of it. As I was reading … Read More
Thought I would do a sugar free update–so since May 12– I have been primarily sugar free, grain free, –potato free–anything that turns into sugar has been a no no. This was not done for weight loss but for lowering … Read More