Do you ever feel like you’re tiptoeing through survivorship? Yeah, me too. As I mentioned in a previous post, it’s been three years since my breast cancer diagnosis. It’s been three years since the shit hit the fan, or to put it more delicately, since the dominoes starting toppling. Actually, the domino effect began in …

After a cancer diagnosis, you’re a better person, right?  Hmm. Not so fast. Cancer is a horrible disease not an enlightenment program. Yet, there is often an unspoken societal expectation that suggests a cancer patient should be transformed into a new and improved version of her/his former self following a cancer diagnosis. And if not, …

Did you know April is National Poetry Month? I’ve always admired poets. They say so much in just a few words. I’m working on this myself, not the poetry so much, but trying to be less wordy in my writing when I can be.

How do you react when you first learn about horrific events in the news such as this week’s bomb attacks at the finish line of the Boston Marathon? Do you find yourself retreating? Or do you find the opposite to be true and immediately turn to social media or others for additional information or support?

Have you ever wanted to be some place, but you couldn’t be there for whatever reason? Who hasn’t, right? That’s how I’m feeling right about now. Where do I want to be?