Keepsakes, Scars and Rocks
While most of us collect keepsakes, I seem to collect scars. A coronary artery bypass scar, breast cancer scar, a hysterectomy scar, two hip replacement scars – you get my drift. They are like the
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Top Dog Priorities
Two key chains reside in an outside pocket of my purse with their charms hanging just outside for easy access. One holds my car keys and has a silver paw on it – showing my
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Tears for the Unanswerable
My cousin has been battling breast cancer since 2001. In the last four years it has spread to her lungs and spine and she has exhausted all pill forms of chemotherapy and hormonal therapy available.
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The Lights are Flashing But No Ones Responding
I was fired up and ready to blow! I received a text from a friend of mine asking for prayers for a medical situation. She was acting as a health advocate for a mutual friend
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Between Two Cities
In the last two and half months since moving from South Florida to Oviedo, I have been shocked, amazed, and left speechless (not easily done) at the people in my new home town.
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Hurried Soul
“What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?”. Matthew 16:26 I have always prided myself in being efficient, goal oriented, doing whatever it took to accomplish a mission.
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Blessings Amid the Stressing
The challenges were piling up and I was feeling scared and alone: Our last pet passed to greener pastures and we have agreed not to have another pet for a while. Our home had been
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My Filter has Slipped!
As my life has progressed I have come to have a different perspective. There is less tolerance in general and a sense of impatience that although I always had, seems to have morphed. I seem
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Living with Dying.
Living with Dying I’ve had a lot of time to think about dying. I experienced death at the early age of 5 with the loss of my first dog, then at 11 with my dad’s
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Tightening my Lips for Lent
When did a nice catholic girl educated in parochial schools start cursing? I believe it began after raising a child, being a caregiver for multiple family members, nine surgeries, and 62,000 miles on the body
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Harnessed and Tethered
Because of cellulites infections and lymphedema due to breast cancer and sleep apnea; I wear a compression garment on my torso and a C-Pap machine at night. Picture the Sesame Street character, Snufflelupagus wearing a
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Return to Sender
It’s that time of year when Thad and I send out Christmas cards with a one page letter highlighting the year’s events. Our criteria for selection are those people who impacted our lives in the
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