When the world feels heavy….

Lent makes more sense. And this year, more than any recent one, I'm feeling compelled- pulled, really - to find a way explore and enter the next 40 days. When I was a kid, it was about "giving up" something - tv, chocolate, fighting with siblings. As I got older, it was about "adding" something… Continue reading When the world feels heavy….

Speeding through the Season?

A wonderful thing happened.As my body began to recover from 6 sessions of intensive immune-system-busting chemotherapy in the summertime of this year, I gradually began to (to quote my husband) "come back to life."It sounds dramatic, and maybe it is.But as time got further away from the intensive 3-drug chemotherapy sessions, my attention span improved… Continue reading Speeding through the Season?