Archive for the living with cancer Category


healing and the art of resiliency

By on Friday, November 27th, 2015 | 2 Comments

Wolf is a teacher, meant to come back to the pack with life lessons and insights. Life, as a force or energy, has its own rhythm, ebbs, and flows. Our individual lives follow a subtle, circadian beat. Our days unfold in predictable patterns of space and time. Many of us, without knowing or meaning to, grow […]

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well-being in the face of hard times

By on Friday, March 20th, 2015 | No Comments

How do you hang onto your well-being when life hands out hard stuff? Since my cancer diagnosis, I have become keenly aware of how much my attitude shapes my life.  You don’t have to have cancer to know this. There are plenty of life challenges to go around.  No matter what difficulty comes your way, […]

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enduring the hard stuff

By on Sunday, January 4th, 2015 | 5 Comments

Humor infused… Here in this New Year I have been thinking a lot about life’s challenges and transformations.  The challenges come to all of us in many forms…relationship struggles, job problems, grieving loss, managing difficult emotions, health issues…the list goes on. We all want to know it’s possible to endure the hard stuff.    Speaking from experience, I […]

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the intrinsic power of change

By on Tuesday, December 9th, 2014 | 10 Comments

“Hey, you look good,” has been the greeting du jour following my long ordeal of surgery and chemotherapy. I suspect “you look good” reflects so much more than a warm salutation. It’s certainly is not my looks. My typical attire is a t-shirt and baggy jeans. I am pretty sure friends are expressing, with all […]

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the powerful language of cancer

By on Saturday, October 4th, 2014 | 6 Comments

My dear friend Cheryl Jones, shared a beautiful, heartfelt tribute to her mother who died this past week of cancer.  One part stood out for me when she said, “for her, cancer was not a battle. It was an experience. It was her last experience.” I found these words to describe an incredibly beautiful perception. I wrote to Cheryl – […]

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4 stages too late

By on Tuesday, August 19th, 2014 | No Comments

A year ago today, I was tossed into the vortex of our health care system.  A cat scan revealed that I had enlarged lymph nodes in my abdominal cavity.   It took 4 long weeks to get my final diagnosis…stage 4 ovarian cancer.   The five year survival rate for this cancer is less than 10 […]

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chronic and inevitable

By on Sunday, July 13th, 2014 | No Comments

I have been trying to put my finger on why I am obsessed with recurrence.  Maybe it’s not so weird for someone with cancer, but, hey…I’m new at this. But why would I be antsy to have a recurrence come sooner than later?  What’s up with that?  It’s not that I am hopeless, or depressed.  It’s more […]

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