When we first moved to the North Georgia foothills, I was so in love with the beautiful scenery and our cozy home, that I gave our home a nickname: Ventana de Cielo–window of heaven. I felt as if we were living on the very edge of heaven and, if we chose to open our eyes […]
Tag: thoughts
Writing and Real Life
The ability to put one’s thoughts and feelings into written words is a truly wonderful gift. But it can also be a bit of a curse. Throughout my journey with breast cancer, and into the aftermath of life beyond cancer, I have journaled and blogged to “keep my friends and family informed.” I know that […]
Sticks and Stones
Vacations are wonderful things. You get to go to new places, see new things, try new experiences, or simply see old places in a new light. And sometimes you get to learn things about yourself that you don’t learn in your everyday world. My family and I just got back from our annual visit to […]
A Picture Worth a Thousand Words
The other night my sons and I watched a documentary on the World War II. The Nazi government actually went around filming Jewish communities and families in order to make the rest of the German population believe they really were “the enemy.” They would purposefully pose the people in ways that suggested they were harsh, […]
We Never Grow Without Growing Pains
A couple months ago, when my book was being published, my youngest son and I were discussing why I wanted to publish in the first place. I had told him earlier that it was very uncomfortable to lay my life out there like that, sharing myself with countless unknown others, but especially uncomfortable to have […]
A Laundry List of Gains & Losses
Today I am two…sort of. Actually, today is the second anniversary of my last chemo treatment. In one more year, I will be removed from the every-three-month oncology checkups and added to the every-six-month checkup list, which is a very good thing. I am two-thirds of the way through the highest “danger zone” for a […]
The Fun of Travelling
We went on our Spring Break trip a week or so ago (thus my slowness to get anything posted recently!), so instead of writing about life after cancer, I have decided to write about LIFE in general. Living and loving and sharing some wonderful memories with those who are nearest and dearest to my heart…my […]
life in between... 