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Knit One, Pray One
Three years ago, I was knitting a beautiful rose colored shawl. It went everywhere with me until the evening I lost it in a meadow as I moved from one stage in life to the next. Over the years, it had...
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Be The Change Part 1: Waving Pink Ribbons
As I finished up school for the semester, Pinktober came and went along with most of the marketing that goes with it. The prevalence of pink ribbons everywhere reminds me to celebrate my own life, as...
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Namaste Revisited
I forget I have only one boob. At least once every day – even though it has been years since it was carved off to save my life – I forget and have to go through the mental rearrangement to accept the...
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Why Not Now?
(This is the text from a speech I gave for the opening ceremonies of the Monroe/Sky Valley, Washington Relay for Life fundraiser for the American Cancer Society on June 2, 2012 and, by request, in a...
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An open letter to my dad : “Everything You Do Matters”
Dear Dad, Last night I attended a “black-tie optional” American Cancer Society Gala fundraiser as a guest of a friend. I was a bit out of my league – I had to buy a dress and heels and Neil had to buy...
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Mother’s Milk
MOTHER’S MILK “I created Mother’s Milk as an examination of how we see our mother’s body. Most are uncomfortable or even disgusted by the thought, but when I look at my mother I see evidence of her...
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Five Years = Cured?
Just about at the exact time of my five-year cancerversary my boob broke. I woke up in a hotel room to caustic slime oozing out of an inch long fissure in my silicone prosthesis,...
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Love in Unexpected Places
Rose Quartz surfaces spontaneously in my yard. Recently, I got out of the car and a piece arrived at my feet, just as I was to take a step. Another day, a lightening-bolt shaped sliver of pale pink...
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The Sorrow of Bees
Amanda Corr photo by Laura WIlkes Carey My friend Amanda died nearly two weeks ago. She was barely in her forties. She died of a very aggressive form of breast cancer she had been fighting for less...
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Enter the Dragon….Again
I lost my job today. Well, I got fired to be exact, but I had an “End of Employment ” letter that said it was going to end on Sunday anyhow. I had planned on serving my remaining time in a...
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