If You Look At It Right

There are so many ways to describe the variety of emotions that surfaced when I was going through the diagnosis stage of this cancer.  In reflection, one that stands out now is that of feeling dazed. How I processed everything slowed down because in every thought, in every action, in the background of my mind… Read more

I couldn’t find the best version of myself last week. I couldn’t shake any of the emotions. I could name the feelings of worry, fear, pain, irritation, frustration, but I couldn’t rise above them. I tried all of the tricks. I exercised. I stretched. I meditated. I read. I wrote. I made lists. I organized.… Read more

I stepped over a dead worm on my morning walk the other day. It was about halfway across the paved part of the path. I don’t know if it had been washed onto the path by rain or if, as my son’s hockey coach likes to say, it took a gamble and lost. I don’t… Read more