A Song Not Scored For Breathing

It has been a week of highs and lows and at the moment there is no end in sight although life experience tells me that normal will return i...

A year ago today I was in my surgeon's office for a postoperative visit after having had a lumpectomy a week previously. The last thing...

In the space of 48 and a few hours we celebrated the birth of our grandson, the wedding of our daughter and had a house deal done and then ...

Yesterday I spent part of my day getting some computer training with a head honcho kind of guy. A guy who told me, when I answered the phon...

I've had a week of bizarre dreams. The kind where you wake up because it's so scary/horrible. Waking up is a relief because then yo...

Yesterday I was getting a stack of papers ready to file when I realized that I no longer find my worth attached to how efficient, organized...

I returned to work this week after having the summer off. I made a commitment to myself that I would not belly ache to my co workers about ...

"Fairly late in the catastrophic phase of my illness, I began to understand three facts I'd known in theory since early childhood...

I love me some  Brene Brown : Jesus Wept

The Sacred Wound                 Meditation 22 of 53           Pain teaches a most counterintuitive thing—that...

I recently spent three days in silence and solitude. Well, I didn't quite last the full three days. I caved in about three hours before...

"And may you always remember that obstacles in the path are not obstacles, they ARE the path." ~ Jane Catherine Lotter Yesterd...

I woke in the night and saw stars in the sky. It's been months since it's been dark enough in the night to see stars. It's love...

A year ago today I had the fine needle biopsy that led eventually  to my   cancer   diagnosis . There are a bunch of little one year dates ...

This bit from this book  caused an acute sob to rise from within me: "We traveled to Boston to see a specialist, at the time the o...

I have had this quote from this book  taped to my wall for several years now: ``What makes for an authentic personal story is that the h...

More from  this book: "Part of the overall plan seems to be that no matter how sad, wounded, neurotic, or needy we are, that may be...

From a recently read  deeply compelling book  who is quoting another author : "To give up a misery....is to deprive the ego of one ...

This past weekend one of the women from this  conversation spied me at a community event and immediately came and sat beside me. The first ...

I had a long talk with an old friend yesterday. Someone who has seen her share of sorrows. She told me sometimes there are no answers. No w...