I wasn’t sure how traveling alone would go. In spring, I visited New York and New Mexico, nearly back-to-back – neither new to me, but new to the newly solo me. First, New York City. There, I wasn’t really alone too much. I was staying with a dear friend in Washington Heights, who handed me […]
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Grief and Art and Slowness
It’s been a while since I wrote. Understandably. Since March 2023, I tended my own true love through the last months of his life with cutaneous t-cell lymphoma. He died on May 30, 2023. We had it good, we had it grand – we lived in a very quiet circle of love filled with lattes […]
Living With
In 2022, roughly 1.9 million people will be diagnosed with cancer in the United States. All of us are touched by it in some form. Thanks to remarkable medical advances in treatment, many people live with cancer for a longer time than ever before, surrounded by people who love them, who help care for them […]
Views From the Cancer Hotel
Recently, I spent two weeks in Seattle, with my sweet husband Joe who underwent radiation for advanced cutaneous t-cell lymphoma. We stayed at South Lake Union House (aka “the Cancer Hotel”), patient lodging for Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, and shuttled to UW Medical Center every day. What does an artist do in this situation? Away […]