When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Wayne Dyer Cancer is a wicked mind game. While you sit with it and roll it around in your brain, it consumes most conscious thought. During the first month I continually looked at others hoping to find someone else with [...] Read more »
Memoir Excerpt – Day 2
Day 2 – August 21, 2007 (Italicized = original journal from day one) Aloneness, no one, empty, without, comfortless, alone, alone, alone. . . Misery loves company but there is no company after diagnosis. It doesn’t matter all those before me; it doesn’t matter all those after me. I am solitary and [...] Read more »
Forgiving God?
Most of us can forgive and forget; we just don’t want the other person to forget that we forgave. Ivern Ball Revelation time. I just had that aha moment while reading chapter six of The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz. He talks about fighting against the parasite of the mind, that we need to [...] Read more »
Memoir Excerpt – Day 1
MEMOIR EXCERPT CHAPTER 1 Week 1 / Day 1 – August 20, 2007 The call came; the words didn’t need to be spoken as I held the phone. I knew the diagnosis. I didn’t know the extent but at the first mention of cancer came the balloon of fear. With each escape of air [...] Read more »
Making Dreams Come True
Your beliefs are never neutral. They either move you forward or hold you back. And you choose what you will believe. ~Marcia Wieder from Making Your Dreams Come True Okay, it’s time. I had two friends talk to me on consecutive days last week about my memoir. I’ve set it aside for about six months. [...] Read more »
