Author: Alice, What’s The Matter?

  • My cousin wrote a piece the other day about Angelina Jolie’s article, what it’s like to be 22 with the family history we have and her thoughts about the possibility she *might* also get breast cancer at some point *if* she has the faulty gene like I do. Here’s an excerpt: “I am 22 years…

  • I came across an interesting site last month. One that I found fascinating not just from an emotional perspective but also because he’s doing all the right things for the audience of his site; people who have also suffered a loss of someone they love and need to share their feelings of grief, anger, confusion.…

  • A couple of people have sent me the link to Angelina Jolie’s piece in the New York Times on 14th May 2013 that talks about her decision to have a double mastectomy, the process of which started in February just like mine did. In her case, she has the BRCA1 gene and is able to…

  • April has been a hugely busy month full of exciting ideas and learning new things. It feels like I’ve crammed more new things into my brain in the last 3 weeks than in the last 3 years. And it’s a brain that is WORKING PROPERLY AGAIN! Yaaaaaaaaaaaay! 😀 It’s funny how you don’t know what…

  • March has been a bit of a mad month, with courses, meetings, new ideas and projects keeping me busy. Here’s a little selection of Haiku I wrote in the “A year in Haiku” – Facebook Group. 05/3/13 A cold for four weeks; Is something telling me to slow down now, perhaps? 07/3/13 Pizza with Helen.…