These days are alive days are my days to celebrate being alive. These days are my anniversary days. Sixteen years past cancer diagnosis. Sixteen years of raising my children of loving my children of scribbling in notebooks. Sixteen years. I … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
Who wants to be on this cancer journey? Not me. Not anyone. No one would ever choose this path. And yet, here we are, my compatriots of cancer and I, mending our lives, saving our lives, as best as we … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
On Wednesday, Feb 13, at 7pm at Broadside Books in Northampton MA, members of the Spirit of the Written Word writing workshop that I lead at Cancer Connection will read from our new book, Words to Live By. It will … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
Today is the opening for the art show, “Expressions of Cancer and One in Eight: The Torso Project,” at the Barnes Gallery at Leverett Arts and Crafts Center in Leverett MA. I facilitated this show ( The Torso Project is … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
Not long after my breast cancer diagnosis, I called my health care plan. Even though I didn’t think that I wanted reconstruction, researching it was a good distraction from my fear that I would not live long enough to raise … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
It was a cold December night when I sat in Genie Zeiger’s writing workshop and tried to listen to my fellow participants. With sweaty palms and a quickening heart, I tracked the progression of readers, as, one by one, the … [CLICK TO READ MORE]