Cancer – What’s in a Word?

Cancer – What’s in a Word?

My girl gets bumps all over the left side of her face.  It’s one of the most obvious aspects of her physical condition. They come and go, ebb and flow with less regularity than the tide or seasons.  Their predictability is only that they occur randomly in all...
Kindness

Kindness

Kindness. It’s my word for the day. Not just toward everyone else, but toward me, myself and I. It has been especially glorious in our lovely beachside town this week, and I chose to pull off the road and take full advantage of it, even if it was just for a...
The Door of Possibility

The Door of Possibility

A few weeks back, I noticed my girl was trending. Trending in a direction we had travelled many times before. Trending toward quiet, trending toward stillness, trending toward apathy…this trend was pain. The signs are all to clear for me, a mom like so many who...
The Long Road

The Long Road

Tonight I write with sadness. I am feeling constrained, tied down by the life of my girl. For it’s long after the diagnosis, the therapy regimens and surgeries, the doctors appointments and research, that the life we have both chosen to lead is clear and ragged...