Choice = Freedom

In yesterday’s blog, I shared with you about the point in Gary’s journey through cancer where I hit a wall.  At one point, leaving was the only answer I could come up with…and it wasn’t acceptable.  I loved Gary, but more than that I had given him my word when we...

Screw Graceful, Polite & Doing it Right

Throughout our lives, and even throughout our day, we tend to wear multiple masks.  We have certain ways we present ourselves at work, with friends and in our intimate relationships.  It isn’t appropriate to show up and interact the same way in our job as we do...

The Day I Stopped Breathing

There are those moments in life when something happens and our heart drops into the pit of our stomach.  We’re face to face with fear.  In that moment, we can become paralyzed by it or plow on through.   For the first three weeks after we learned of my late husband’s...

Who Survives?

For years, cancer survivors were defined by the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) as anyone with cancer from the time of their diagnosis through “the balance of their life.”  After extensive studies examining the impact of a cancer diagnosis on primary...

Loss Just Is…

There is no why or why not. If only, we should have, what if. Loss just is. It is: A part of the natural cycle of things A reminder we do not have forever – we have this moment Not greater for some and less for another Loss is not easier because: it was anticipated it...
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