In reflection, after my last post, I have felt the need to revisit and strengthen my commitment to follow the light, regardless of negative stimuli. It has been a difficult transition for me to go from a workaholic in a major US city to a retiree in a small town in the tropics of Central…

How great is it to have survived several cancers, western medicine and running an entrepreneurial business and retire to paradise?  Well, it is great, really great. But there is an art to surviving in paradise. First, you have to be able to identify and safely avoid contact with the vipers, crocodiles, dart frogs, pumas and…

I’ll see it…when I believe it. My beliefs are now part of my  daily mantras that I consciously and ardently reinforce every single day. I am cancer free, and will be for the remainder of my life. My novel will be published and my writing skills affirmed, most of all to myself. My life is…

…of who I am. In my meditation this morning, this thought struck a chord deep within me. I have been tested relentlessly lately on how to manage the daily onslaught of human interaction that has clouded my happy, healthy life. I was temporarily paralyzed by the seeming betrayals and breaches of trust by some very…

…where peaceful waters flow.  At the end of the day, of the week, of the life…it all comes back to the seemingly simplistic concept and practice of gratitude. I used to be obsessively consumed with the drama of the moment, and when that played itself out I’d revert to the wounds of the past. So…

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” – Desmond Tutu I meditated to this inspiration today, and was blessed with a transcending peace. Considering the source, everything in my limited sphere of reality gains perspective. My angst, my stress is, dare I say it, self-imposed and woefully…

When I started this blog waaay back when, I was more cognizant of death and its one-dimensional, looming presence than I was with life and all its concommittant joy and complexities. Those dreaded words “you have cancer” were etched into my soul with a burning, white-hot, putrid-smelling acid. Nothing compared with that stomach-churning, sweaty-cold realization…

Where does the time go…an all too familiar yet true refrain. I am humbled and amazed that so many people continue to read my blog, even when I take such long hiatuses. Thank you. Really, thank you. It inspires me to continue to share my journey, my thoughts, my diet and regimen, my emotional evolution,…

It’s the dawn of a new day, a new month, a new year, a new life. In this post apocolyptic, chemo-infused phase of my life, I have decided to take control of my mind, body and spirit, one day at a time. I am blessed to have a partner who shares in the vision and…

Just when you thought it was safe..to live, to laugh, to forget hospitals and doctors and toxic meds, BAM! The light at the end of the tunnel turns out to be yet another train. Two weeks ago we were flying to an exotic third world country when I started to get severe chest pains, with…