The Fragility of Life – August 2013

In the past month life has gifted me with reminders of how fragile life is. We lost three people in my church and they all seemed too young: 36, 45, and 62. They didn’t have cancer, and their deaths were unexpected. One was killed immediately in a car accident. Here...

Life’s Priorities – June 2013

Dear Friends, Last Friday I saw Unbeatable, the musical, on opening night of a 9 performance run in a community theater in Roseville, CA. It’s being done as a fundraiser for two charities, including Healing Journeys. In this picture, taken that night, are: Jason...

Feelings – April 2013

I’ve been writing in my blog about the six “treatments” that Kelly Ann Turner mentions in her thesis on unexpected remission from cancer. It’s interesting that two of them have to do with feelings. In the workshop Healing Journeys sponsored in...

Cancer as a Catalyst – January 2013

Dear Friends, The new workshop we are introducing in March is called Saying Yes: Cancer as a Catalyst, with Julie Interrante, MA. I’ve been thinking about the many ways that cancer has been a catalyst for me. It was because of my experience of cancer that I...