Well it almost my birthday, and it is definitely an emotional one. This year has been incredibly unexpected, and difficult, heart wrenching and challenging, but I am so grateful to see another birthday, and to have the support and love of such wonderful family and friends in my life, especially […]

Cancer. It is the one thing said that can never be taken back.  There are words that calm the current, like “recession” and “remission”.  But even the coveted “gone” does not pull back the tide. The salty taste of its condemnation lingers in the back of your tongue, waiting for its time to break free. […]

I remember our last Mother’s Day. I was living in Boston for an internship, but had gone to New York for the weekend. I scrambled around to put a card together, along with a book of cute mother/child animals, and wrote something about how much I missed her, it had been a month and a […]

I’m sitting in my room looking at this red frame I have, with that quote hand typed, several colorful strings in a chaotic ball beneath a hand-cut gold star. It was a gift from my mom, during another point in my life when I desperately needed inspiration, and her faith in me to keep me […]

So, I started cleaning yesterday, or maybe it was the night before. I just got this burst of energy and felt like no better time than the present to try getting some organization in my life. I thought the dresser top would be a good first start, considering it was no more a dresser than […]

So I was finally able to take my first shower today, and I am feeling so fresh and so clean clean!!!! And I painted my nails last night, a bright pretty pink; you know it is the little things that count.  Not a chance in hell I’ll be able to reach my toes any time […]

Hi to all!! I’m happy to say that I am out of the hospital, and back to the “comfort” of my couch, and happy company of my annoying little kitties bouncing on my head. The surgery went well, they removed somewhere around twenty lymph nodes, which is a lot, but as they got deeper they […]