I lost a bit of confidence this week, once all the “launch” activities were over. Then a friend did me a great kindness. It’s been making me think about kindness in general and to wonder what I can DO to be more kind.
Read MoreNovember has been a tricky month in Cancerland. If this was a movie we’d be in the part where the tension is mounting.
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“Hands, hands, handkerchief!” The woman demands in a Scottish accent. She’s standing next to the chocolate brown painted hand-rail at the top of the stairs and blocking the route down.
Read MoreI’ve been helping Josh revise physics this week. As we were reading through his notes of waves it struck me as a really good analogy for how I am feeling about cancer:
Read MoreChris is strong. He hasn’t just coped but thrived in the hardest of years. It leaves me with no doubt that Chris will manage whatever life can throw at him. He is resilient.
Read MoreThese days I am more vagrant than Vogue…
Read More“The writing prompt is: it’s raining you are not at home. Go!” We were sitting in deep shade in a leafy garden in Saxonwold at the first meeting of a local writers group that I’d attended. Without thinking I began to write about the first thing that popped into my brain.
Read MoreThe ceiling of the meeting room is low and, although its adequate, I can’t help wishing the lights...
Read MoreOn Thursday 19 October I was invited to share a little about our journey at the Reach For a Dream Foundation donor breakfast – here’s what I told them….
Read MoreI wonder what it must take to wake up each day knowing that the odds are against you. That you will fail. And fail in a way where lives will be lost? What must it be like to spend your days with people who are in pain? Who are scared? Who are at their worst? Who are filled with the anguish and anger and blame of facing their mortality? What must it be like to know all this and to do the job anyway?
Read MoreThe phrase don’t count your chickens before they hatch, is playing on repeat.
The terrifying, hopeful, standing-on-the cliff-edge thing is that Josh seems to be getting better.
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