Healthy fudge – yup it’s a thing The words ‘healthy’ and ‘fudge’ don’t often go together, but I’ve been on a mission to healthify the most indulgent chocolate recipes without sacrificing flavor, because chocolate is life. To follow up my luscious healthy hot cocoa, for my second post in my Valentine’s Day week chocolate series, I’m […]

Chocolate is bliss. Seriously. I could eat chocolate every day. In fact, I pretty much do – dark chocolate to be clear. I am fully capable of going without: for a couple months during my diagnostic and early treatment phases I conscientiously avoided anything with sugar, chocolate included. Just last month – the entire month […]

  When life gives you lemons… Make lemon water! I never used to like lemon in my water. I’ve always been a water-drinker but was a complete purist – I didn’t like anything to interfere with the clear cleansing purity of unadultered water. While I still drink plenty of pure water throughout the day, I’ve added lemon […]

What a weird start to the year I’ve had. We typically view January 1st as a clean slate, ripe for fresh beginnings. A time for resolutions and goal-setting. I’ve never been big on resolutions myself, because 1) people rarely stick with them 2) it’s a great way to set yourself up for failure and the accompanying […]

Today marks three months since I left the hospital for the last time – hopefully ever. Three months since I had the PICC wires pulled out of my arm. Three months of hair growth. Three months of freedom.

So the first part of my detailed account discussed the alternative approaches I took in addition to treatment in order to properly heal myself and mitigate suffering. When there is so little definitive information out there, how does one make the best decisions? Was all of this necessary? When it comes to life or death […]

Cancer is expensive. That’s a fact. A few people have wondered about my use of funds on the yoga retreat I went on in September. This did cross my mind when booking the retreat – how it might look. The fact is, I didn’t use the donation money to fund it. I earned that money […]

Today marks six weeks since I left my sixth, and final, round of treatment. One week ago today, exactly five weeks after I left the hospital, I had my follow up scan and found out I was officially in remission. To say that I was happy is a complete understatement; happy, relieved, excited… these words […]

The Hair Hair. A feature so inessential yet so central in defining our identity. How we look and how we feel is often determined by or displayed through our hair. If we are exhausted or in a funk, we throw our hair up in a messy bun or walk out the door with bed head. […]

Happy August 1st! New month, new life. Tomorrow I finish round five and get one more round of semi-freedom before round six… Then ultimate freedom! I hope. And pray. Fingers crossed, knock on wood. Yes, I actually knocked on wood just now. Three weeks from tomorrow, I’m outta here for the last time (and I […]