If you’ve ever had to face your mortality a little earlier than you may have expected, like me, you learn that time is more valuable than money even, because time means precious life on earth. And then when you live with the ongoing threat of your potential early demise because of the threat of cancer …
Category Archives: breast cancer survivor
Happy Mother’s Day
Happy Mother’s Day to all those who nurture out there. You don’t have to be a Mom to nurture, you don’t even have to be female to nurture and care for each other. I feel especially in today’s weird world what the human race needs is nurturing, what the earth needs is nurturing. If we …
A lay-off hit
Well it happened yesterday. I was called my my recruiting firm to tell me my contract ended early due to budget cuts. Actually I think what happened was I was covering for someone who was on maternity leave and they came back and then the pandemic hit. I knew it was coming or had a …
Self-imposed partial quarantine is nothing new to me
10 things you can do to combat the blues, stress, or boredom when you are stuck at home So as I write this I am just chilling at my home partially due to the virus pandemic because of having a “chemo-lite” treatment yesterday which makes my immune system lower so as much as I hate …
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Surviving 2 Ways
As I mentioned before, I am a breast cancer survivor. So far, I’ve lived about a year more than they thought I would but “they” aren’t always right. In the past year and a half or so since I was diagnosed with breast cancer I have had to look for work two times once last …
Mammograms are scary
Well yes mammograms can be scary for anyone, but especially if you have already had one breast removed from cancer, it can be extremely nerve wracking which Was the case for me. But the good news is my right breast is clear, had the mammogram last week and got results yesterday when I went to …
Divine Feminine Studies
For a number of years now I am not sure how I fell down this rabbit hole, it really started in my twenties with my friend and roommate Tonya in the old house in Grant Park in Atlanta, GA, when we started reading things like “Women Who Run With the Wolves”, by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, …
Thoughts on love
After living for half a century, I still haven’t figured out how love works. I can’t seem to hang on to it for long. Maybe that’s just how it works. People come together for a time, then go their separate ways. I do know some people have longevity in their relationships but it seems I …
Rockwater Glass and Healing Gems
So in my copious leisure time, on top of work and raising kids, oh and battling cancer, I make jewelry. Lately it’s been beading, but I also make glass, do wire wrapping of stones, and make all sorts of things. Here’s some picks of some of my latest pieces. All available for sale. I make …
Thoughts of the Day
I am a person who has beaten cancer for almost a year so far. Although I didn’t start this blog to talk about cancer. I started this blog to talk about a lot of things, really anything I wanted because I felt this urge, this sort of pressure, to write down my thoughts, because I …
Petrichor - An Online Journey 