“Letting go” was the topic of a wonderful and lively @bcsmchat. If you’d like to read the chat transcript in its entirety, click here. While participating in the chat, I found myself struggling a bit with what to say, or rather with how I felt about the topic. Mostly I was, and still am, unsure …
Cancer
From time to time, I write about our three pets; the golden, the English springer spaniel and a certain little black cat. Elsie, Sophie and Ninja are very special members of our family and they don’t mind at all when I share about them here on the blog or on Instagram, which by the way, is …
When I was watching Part 1 of the PBS documentary, Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies, I heard a statement in the opening segment with a certain word in it that immediately hurled me back to when I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Guess the title of this post is a giveaway as to what …
Do we have to put a positive spin on everything, even cancer? Do you ever wonder why people try so hard to turn everything that happens into something positive? Me too. Maybe it’s human nature to look for the silver linings in everything that happens, including the really crappy stuff. Maybe it’s how we explain …
Five years post diagnosis, what does it mean? I have passed the long-awaited for, highly anticipated five-year mark. It feels a little bit like when I completed primary cancer treatment. It sort of feels like, now what? I’ve been struggling a little bit as to what I should write about this particular juncture. I guess …