When I was in the initial stages of receiving this diagnosis, when it was still new and life-consuming, yet still hidden and known only by me and my husband, a friend had called to chat and catch up. We were both having simultaneous “that reminds me of [friend]” in our separate lives and after I …
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learning to 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 …
gratitude ~ september 2018
I have to laugh. I spend so much time with my students working on how to vary word choice when writing, but all I can keep saying in my text these days is “thank you.” Thank you a million times over. And a million times over that. Your messages, cards, meals, flowers, care packages, errands, …
the diagnosis ~ summer 2018
When you turn 40 as a female, it is recommended that you get a mammogram. When I turned 40 in November 2017, I didn’t even think of it. When I visited my (amazing) ob/gyn for my annual appointment in April of 2018, she kindly and directly told me it was time to schedule a mammogram. …
writing has always been therapy
In the beginning, it was blank lined newsprint paper with solid and dotted blue lines, which smudged when erasing #2 pencil marks. Shortly after, the dotted lines disappeared and were replaced with wide ruled blue lines on stronger, white paper. The paper sometimes had margins, sometimes was loose leaf, and sometimes was bound in a …
If You Look At It Right 