I love this blog and was happy to be asked to contribute a post during Blood Cancer Awareness Month. Here it is: http://onthewillows.com/2012/09/17/leukemia-tsunami-breath-grace-and-healing/ While you are there at On The Willows, check out other great posts about this topic from Lindsay, Amy, Vesi and more. I hope none of you ever has to deal with [...]

It’s a little weird just how intimate the “blood” connection may feel to someone who receives blood. Everyone has a little bit of a different take on it, which you would expect because we all perceive things through a personal lens. Some people who have received a blood transfusion wave it off as no big [...]

We have a visitor for a few months. Her name is Breea. (Yes, that’s Breea with two ees.)  She has very curly hair and prefers my side of the bed, probably because I’m shorter than the other guy so there’s more room. She claims the lap of my hubby on the couch and has confused [...]

So I’m only about a month behind now. Catching up! On July 14, I greeted the day with thanks for twelve years since my marrow transplant. I believe in celebrating milestones and any excuse for celebrating is good by me. A couple of days before my re-birthday was young Dominic’s transplant anniversary, the day before [...]

12 noon – July 17, 2011.     It’s a half hour until the women’s World Cup final – USA vs. Japan.  I just love World Cup, especially the women’s even though people tell me over and over that women’s soccer isn’t as exciting as men’s. Aurghh.  I love it that a starter like Megan [...]

Otherwise By Jane Kenyon I got out of bed on two strong legs. It might have been otherwise. I ate cereal, sweet milk, ripe, flawless peach. It might have been otherwise. I took the dog uphill to the birch wood. All morning I did the work I love. At noon I lay down with my [...]

Arsenic and God’s Grace chronicles my journey through leukemia. I will occasionally post excerpts from that book here although I am healthy and strong today. I was initially diagnosed with leukemia in 1997, relapsed,  had a marrow transplant in 1999. I want to encourage people who face cancer today that you can survive no matter the [...]