In spite of how many times you may have heard otherwise, cancer is most decidedly not a gift. Even so, there are important and useful lessons to be learned from it. I want to tell you about the most important lesson I’ve learned from the darkness of the cancer...
It’s breast cancer awareness month, and I’m a breast cancer survivor. Two of my in-laws were recently diagnosed with cancer last month. One has leukemia.The other has lung cancer. Confronting these things stirs up a potent mix of feelings. Gratitude for my present...
A colleague or friend shares a struggle they are in the midst of. Your stomach drops. You don’t know what to say. How can you comfort them? You’re afraid of saying the wrong thing, and you certainly don’t want to make things worse. Click below to...
Early Saturday morning, my friend and I talked of many things as we pedaled our way along a 13-mile loop through Patapsco Park. We shared our opinions of our bike bags (a key topic for avid touring cyclists). We commented on the park’s beauty, how we’d each spent...
Last week, our online writing group,Writing for Resilience met and focused on the topic of courage. To get started, we drew and discussed mind maps capturing the words we associate with “courage.” Next we wrote, using the prompts I provided. Each of us had our own...
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