This is a hard post to write. Last weekend I had a joyous Thanksgiving with my very large family. The next morning, I joined another family to mourn and celebrate an exceptional woman. Her name was Peggy and she died at age 66 from ovarian cancer. Peggy and I served on the Pathways Women's Cancer [...]
Tag: loss
Death and Cancer Loneliness
Death's in the good-bye. Anne Sexton I recently had an experience I can't get out of my mind. At a Pathway's Women's Cancer Teaching Project panel presentation, a co-presenter shared her story of living, and dying, with cancer. She told us the facts of her cancer, which I won't share here to protect her privacy. The point of [...]
Meditation Monday – Death and Loss
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone. Paul Valery As I was working on today's blog post, my very dear friend called to tell me that her father was gone. He'd been in very poor health the past dozen years or so, battling prostate, lung and colon cancer, and [...]
Where We Go Now 