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ready for anything

If there’s one thing cancer teaches us, it’s to be flexible, and ready to adapt to any and all circumstances.  Try as we might to control our surroundings, to plan for an ever-elusive future, there’s simply no way we can … Continue reading

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increasing the happy

There are moments – increasing in frequency and intensity – when I am amazed at the depth of my happiness.  The happiness I know now is richer, more substantial, than anything I knew before cancer.  This weekend, not unexpectedly, was … Continue reading

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simplicity: holidays 2009

The holiday season is finally over.  That seemingly endless stretch starting with Thanksgiving and ending with New Year’s has come and gone, and here I sit, wearing my favorite fleece pants and my re-imagined fuzzy purple cancer socks, listening to … Continue reading

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thankful

This year, as the Thanksgiving weekend comes to a close, it is essential to stop and actually “give thanks.”   It is the eve of the anniversary of my diagnosis.  Today is even my “MRI-iversary” – marking the date which, … Continue reading

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