It was a delight to see the total Eclipse sitting on a beach in SC with good friends. Matt Rice - age 17 took this. Sometimes the whole prayer is   Wow.

I just had my first 3 month post chemo checkup. It was supposed to be just a physical, but I'd been having some digestive problems that were similar to those I had at the start of this journey. So I got a CT scan. While it was an anxious time waiting for the results,...

After a busy couple of weeks at home Ken and I are now in Paris for our anniversary trip. Over the 2 weeks before we left Nathan had 2 planned infusions (yea that means 6 months have gone by with no problems) a few MRIs to check on things (hours and hours) SAT, ACT...

It feels great to have the chemicals leaving my body and I am definitely more energetic and up beat than I've been. Yet my muscles aches as I'm asking them to do the things I've always wanted them to do. Stiff, tight, no way I could do a yoga class. But I'll get there...

This week I return to my internship. In a lot of ways it feels like the first day of school in middle school. I'm eager to go back, I know the teachers and classmates and the place, and yet I feel deeply different than I was when I left. Yes, that new clothes sparkly...

For months my breath has come erratically - particularly with any exertion. Again and again I was forced to stop as I walked up a hill no one else would notice was a hill - something someone else might call a slight incline. Climbing up the stairs at home would leave...

Adapted from the writings of Danaan John Raymond Parry Sometimes I feel that my life is a series of trapeze swings. I'm either hanging on to a trapeze bar swinging along or, for a few moments in my life, I'm hurtling across space in between trapeze bars. Most of the...

The wonderful Dr. Bicher said today that my scans and tests couldn't be better. I'll visit her again for more assessments in 3 months, and again in 3 months... But today is radiantly free of worry.  Enough (David Whyte) Enough. These few words are enough. If not these...

While I'm glad I acknowledged and celebrated my last scheduled infusion, I also emotionally jumped the gun and now have several weeks with chemicals in my blood making me tired and weak. In short today and for some time I'm still in the midst of treatment and I feel...

The title says it all. And of course there are more steps. I have a full body CT scan which we can all pray finds nothing. I have a visit with wonderful Dr. Bicher, and then in 3 months another visit with Dr. B and then in 3 more months another CT scan and more visits...