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Weight, weight, don’t tell me
As I come to the end of nearly six months of treatment for breast cancer, I find myself a little underweight. I feel guilty saying it because I know there are many people who struggle with being overweight. Even though I am only a few pounds underweight (and none of my doctors are worried about…
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Staring and pointing
This past weekend, as I buckled my daughters into their car seats outside of a store, I got that prickly feeling on the back of my neck, that feeling where you know you’re being watched. I didn’t have to look far to see a family leaning against a brick wall across from my car. I…
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Lemon be the one
Like everybody, we love to listen to music in the car. Two of our favorite story CDs are Seal Maiden and Gift of the Tortoise. Both are excellent CDs, very musical, with captivating stories full of powerful images that fire up Dinah’s and Djuna’s imaginations. We listen to great music, too. We love Dan Zanes’…
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Thoughts on clowns
We had mixed feelings about it, but last night we went with some friends to the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus at the Staples Center to see their new show “Over the Top.” Mainly, I was concerned about giving my daughters a lifetime of nightmares from the clowns, which I found creepy and…
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Done with chemo and hankering for a new pair of shoes (Is that odd?)
Yesterday was the last of eight rounds of chemotherapy. It really feels great to be done, but I am a little nervous because now there is no more “medicine” for me — that’s in quotation marks because chemotherapy is the medicine to help me get better from breast cancer, sure, but it is so toxic…
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I have cancer. WTF?
My birthday comes at the end of January, and, now that I am a little over 40, it’s also the time when I’ve decided to have my annual mammogram. I had my first one last year. This January I was very, very anxious about my health. I have been having some gastric issues for a…
BeTwinned
[Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered]
