Advent Letter 2021 Opening remarks For my global community: Anyone done with waiting for Covid to stop interfering (or worse) with your life? For my local BC community: Anyone done with waiting for the
Hi Friends! I’m SO excited you’re joining me today! This post was supposed to be a Thanksgiving post. But, well, life happened: my kids got sick and had to stay home from school, crowding out
I'm unsettled this morning, waiting for my afternoon oncologist appointment. Don't tell me I shouldn't be terrified of hearing my MRI results today. I am terrified. I've been making granola for an hour but I
Some random thoughts from today Before MRI I’ve been on a spiritual journey lately (well, okay, always, but it’s more fruitful and pointed lately) and I feel like I’m touching the cloak of the Divine.
19 years with this man. incredible! Believing for another 19 years of adventure. One of the things I love about my husband is that he keeps me moving forward. Because one of the worst things
Forest Bathing Curiosity Ever heard of forest bathing, but you weren’t quite sure what it's actually all about? That was me until a couple of weeks ago when my friend invited me to explore our
Cleaning House It was good to “Spring Clean” my soul with you last week and sit in the darkness of lent. Today I’m equally excited to share the bright “aha moment” I experienced while spring
Announcements of the imminent arrival of SPRING surround me. Songbirds sing in the trees, pastel Easter wreaths decorate neighborhood doors and I insist that, yes child, it’s time to put away your (pretty) reindeer winter
This excerpt from my memoir discusses the difficulties of “the wilderness”- the post-treatment zone of incurable cancer- with a glimpse of events from just last week. Note: "scanxiety" is what the cancer-world calls anxiety about
This image is loaded with grief and love; it was taken mere days after my glioblastoma diagnosis when I was in the thick of grieving my prognosis and grasping to hold on to this man,
