First, thanks for your generous responses to my new focus on dying on my blog. I wish I could write everyday. But as every adventure should be, this one is full of surprises. What may have seemed like fun one day is a total dud the next. I hope to address a topic tonight that …
Tag: life
Adventure on Holy Ground #2
I've been home from the hospital since last Thursday, but I'm been awake only a fraction of that time Both the palliative care nurses and nurse friends impressed on me the importance of pain management, so being the good little do-be that I am I've taken my med every four hours, followed immediately by an …
Pancreatic Cancer, Again
In 2005, my only brother died at age 74 of pancreatic cancer. At the time, my husband and I were living in Chicago, and I had been impressed by Joseph Cardinal Bernadin's memoir of his final months of living with the disease. His book, The Gift of Peace, had been published in 1997, and I …
Dear Wannabe Facebook Friends:
I apologize for being negligent in responding to all of you. For weeks now, no months, you have urgently showed up in my Friend box asking me to be your Friend. Now, whatever photos you may have seen of me, might make me look like I need Friends, and perhaps that’s why you landed on …
Black Plastic Glasses and Other Blessings
Summer time, especially today with overcast skies, merits a trip into family nostalgia. Look what I found on an old external hard drive: A delightful sibling memory! From the file: Lois Roelofs/Stories//10-25-2001 You have to meet my sister Rose. She can change your life if you’re not careful. Recently, I made a major career …
Write Along with Me 