Alice… what's the matter?

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Introvert. Online waffler. Breast cancer fighter. Dreamer. Maybe a writer, one day…

Category: relationships

  • Your story

    It hurts our hearts that you are gone, and this is now the end of the story of a wife, a mother, grandma, sister, friend. You’re spoken of in such fond ways, by everyone you’ve met. Your kindness and your lovely smile they never will forget. You’re still here in our photos and in voicemails…

  • Happy Father’s Day, Dad

    The thing about Dads: They’re invincible, see… They don’t like to stay home With a cough or a sneeze. They tell a great story, love making you laugh; No matter the challenge, they don’t do things by half. Whenever there’s trouble, Dads won’t make a fuss: They fix things in a jiffy, Dads know magical…

  • Here’s a wish (poem)

    Picture now, if you will, a girl sat on a plastic chair; Some flowers on the windowsill, her mother, frightened, lying there.   Mother and father worked so hard to raise their daughters every day, and now it seems that life’s reward is their retirement, snatched away.   In hospital there’s nothing subtle: Lights so harsh…

  • Say what you need to say

    My New Year’s resolution for 2014 was stolen from a friend. He frequently advises people to stop and then think about what they think they need to say, and test it against these three questions: “Is it true? Is it kind? Does it need to be said?” He asserts that only if something satisfies all…

  • Do You Realize?

    I don’t spend a lot of my time thinking about cancer, luckily. I decided that it wasn’t healthy for me to do that and I backed away from a lot of the activity that I was involved in. I stopped reading a lot of the blogs and posts that I’d found so helpful day-to-day in…