Not as in a pause
before taking action.
not as in giving pause…
not as in we pause for a brief
announcement from our sponsors.
not as in pause here.
As in meno-
pause.
The answer to all that has been ailing me for the past few days. It began with unexplainable fatigue, moving to mood swings and, of course, hot flashes. It’s [...]
Posts Tagged ‘breast cancer’
Word of the Week – Pause
Posted in breast cancer, life, poetry, tagged breast cancer, life, menopause, poetry, writing on March 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’m Living Proof
Posted in breast cancer, tagged breast cancer, Her2, Herceptin, Living Proof on October 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m watching Living Proof on Lifetime, the movie about Dr. Dennis Slamon who pushed to get the drug Herceptin approved. This drug is near and dear to my heart–figuratively and literally. It’s keeping my heart ticking, after all, by keeping my cancer away. So, I’m watching this movie, watching and realizing how lucky I am. [...]
Too tired to walk
Posted in breast cancer, tagged breast cancer on October 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For a brief moment I thought I’d be walking at Making Strides for Breast Cancer in Ann Arbor. I probably should walk, but the thought of stuffing one more thing into my Saturday is making me tired. I’ll have to pass this year seeing as how my list of deadlines is growing and the amount [...]
Barking Bassett Hound Puppies and Breast Cancer Awareness
Posted in breast cancer, life, writing, tagged basset hounds, breast cancer, Robin Roberts, writing on October 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Barking Basset hound puppies have nothing to do with breast cancer awareness, but I’m sitting here trying to listen to Robin Roberts talk about her journey while a choir of Basset hound puppies provide background music. My neighbor has nine Basset hound puppies. They are so cute!!! And, they are so loud!! I’m laughing as [...]
Word of the Week-Pink
Posted in breast cancer, life, writing, tagged breast cancer, life, pink, writing on October 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Pink is for princesses and for my little girl, who loves the color not because she’s a girl, but because she just loves pink with a passion. I love pink, too. (Maybe not so much the marketing of pink, but what pink stands for this month as a symbolic color.) I’m not sick of pink. [...]
This was a little over a year ago
Posted in breast cancer, family, life, tagged Add new tag, breast cancer, cancer, family, life, photos on September 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An altogether different time
The above link is to a montage of photos taken last year during my treatment for breast cancer. It seems like it was so long ago. I just found it at my Planet Cancer page, which I haven’t looked at in a while. Now, I have a full head of really tight [...]
Some thoughts, some announcements and a lazy Sunday morning
Posted in breast cancer, family, life, poetry, writing, tagged art, breast cancer, kids, life, newspaper, poetry, radio, writing on July 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I hesitated to move to get my computer because my cat, Betty, was so comfortably curled up on my lap as I sat in the recliner, Jay’s recliner, watching my favorite television show, Sunday Morning on CBS. I tried calling my mother, who is probably sleeping, to tell her to watch it because artist Jim [...]
The Irony of Writing about my Breast
Posted in breast cancer, writing, tagged breast cancer, humor, life, writing on January 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Every other week I contribute a column to the Tecumseh Herald, the newspaper that I’ve been working at for more than eight years. There was no question that when I was diagnosed with breast cancer more than a year ago that I would begin sharing my journey with my loyal readers who have put up [...]
Writing and Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Posted in art, breast cancer, family, life, photography, poetry, writing, tagged breast cancer, MFA Creative Writing, novel, school, writing on October 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
What’s the connection? For me, irony is the connection.
I’m preparing to head to residency for my third semester of my MFA. It was nearly a year ago that I was last in Louisville for residency. I had submitted for workshop a bit from the novel that I’m working on in which a thirtysomething woman deals with a [...]
