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…

My Provence alley is done! I just varnished what is now one of my favorite paintings. It evokes the beauty and unadulterated joy I feel when I am in this part of the world. I look forward to being there again SOON! And it will be soon. Sooner than later. We are making a dramatic…

…and again, and again, every day, every way possible to keep my heart and soul from spiraling yet again out of control with all kinds of negative emotions and thoughts of retaliating in an eye-for-an-eye kind of way. Some days it’s soooo hard to demonstrate gratitude by offering compassion and empathy to some of the…

I know, right? It’s back to back blogs, so unlike me. But when inspiration strikes, so must my fingers fly to the keyboard. I have always had extremely strong, and conversely uber sensitive, intuitive powers. They used to scare me. Then they intrigued me, but I rarely trusted to share them for fear of ridicule…

…and more than a little bit baffled. But most of all, I am eternally GRATEFUL! I thank all of you from the bottom of my heart and my soul for reading my blog…I broke 50,000 readers this week. 50K! Wow! I don’t even know who most of you are, but I thank you for reading…

The good (especially the good!), the bad, and the really, really uuuugly. It’s a new year. A chance for a new start in a clean, blank chapter. A chapter full of the promise of joy and laughter and good health. And yet, I have never felt quite so taxed to walk my talk in this…

It was just one year ago yesterday that I had returned home from Provence. Seems more like a decade, really. My travels at the end of last year had begun in Cabo San Lucas to celebrate Thanksgiving with a man whom we had thought was a beloved member of our extended family. We had bestowed…