This Year Has Taught Me Gratitude
This week I’ve felt completely at a loss over what to write about. It happens sometimes. Usually there’s something on my mind that I can bring forth to the page, but this week I have nothing new to...
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Reflections on My ‘Re-birthday’ and the Past Year of Recovery
By the time this column is published, the one-year anniversary of my lifesaving stem cell transplant will have come and gone. But as I sit here sweating away in the thick humidity of a rare August heat...
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Can a Break From Routine Induce Healing?
This is a question I found myself pondering the other week as I locked up my little flat and escaped to somewhere sunny and beautiful for a short time. I spontaneously decided to visit my best friend...
View ArticleFrozen Toes and Sleepless Nights: The Reality of Being a Cancer Survivor
For the past week, I have been living in what I can only describe as a state of unrelenting exhaustion. The main culprit: chronic insomnia. The impact on my body and mind has been debilitating. Most of...
View ArticleLet’s Not Forget the Superheroes
Lately, in the midst of all the insanity going on in the world and the ensuing, albeit dispiriting, headlines covering all things COVID-19, there has been a notable lack of attention to other...
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Sometimes Everything Works Out All Right
The other day, I chanced upon a poem called “Sometimes” that stopped me in my tracks and penetrated right through my rib cage and into my heart, as only a select few pieces of writing can magically and...
View ArticleShedding My Sickness While Acknowledging Its Eternal Impact
Just before the world changed overnight in March, I wrote a column titled “The Paradox of Healing.” In it, I contemplated my feelings about returning to “normal life” after cancer (oh, the irony)....
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Embarking on a New Chapter While Cherishing the Value of Community
It’s surreal to ponder that our world has been living through a pandemic for a year now. That we’ve endured this strange sense of separation from one another for so long. No matter what your individual...
View ArticleA Light-giver Shares a Lesson in Emotional Honesty
Have you ever noticed how the people with the most light to give are often those who have endured the most suffering? I realized this the other day when a friend came to my café for a coffee and a...
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A Farewell Note to My Beloved Readers
So, the time has come. Here I am, three years after I sat down for the first time to write my inaugural column for Lymphoma News Today, writing my very last one. How time flies. How much has happened!...
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