Cancer is hard. Sometimes the word roars and other times it whispers. It can also be more of a feeling like a stark and weighted silence. You
The Rainbow Door
With the summer storms now here, your passages to heaven, To me will become clear. Each time the cleansing rain has left, and
Safe Places
Gracefully Chasing Farts With Frying Pans
“Yes,” I nodded swiping my arm across the old circles of life that collected empty nutshells, dead bugs, assorted half eaten berries and other
The Gift of Hope
More than ever I find myself brimming with Hope, Love, Faith and Joy. I feel on most days despite metastatic cancer, I will live forever – I feel – as
Gratitude and Cancer
Terminal cancer will lead you to new experiences as well as bring memories of the “unfinished” of your life rushing to the surface. These are all
The List
Dr. B.’s office called to let me know my CA-125 had decreased from 85 to 62 – a significant drop – after the radiation treatments for metastatic
I Want More • Brain Cancer 3
The only image occurring while I was awake was of a spiky, barbed, glinting protective and angry Spool of Words. I worked hard my whole life to gain
Greens • Brain Cancer 2
The CT showed new tumors. I was transported and re-admitted to the hospital after “what just happened” in the hours right before I