Tag: survivorship

Let’s keep talking

I was on the phone to a business colleague in the US yesterday. We were talking about our backgrounds, and she said,
“I don’t know whether you know, but I had breast cancer. It’s sixteen years since I was diagnosed.”
Sixteen years!
I love it when I get to talk to someone who had a cancer more than [...]

The closest I come to a prayer

You remember my garden studio? (My family still find it amusing to call it a shed. I simply rise above.)
Well, yesterday was the day that the electricity was connected to it. (Delays to this being done have been caused by snow, Christmas, electrician number 1 changing his mind about doing the job, and the earth [...]

Ring of truth

I was working in Leeds last week, and pottering around the shops one evening I found myself in a bead shop. (It’s the magpie in me. I simply cannot walk past a window full of sparkly.) There were the usual trays of teeny tiny seed beeds and sheeny shiny crystal beads, the racks of findings [...]