Hey! I’m back for a moment. Maybe two? Who knows. I had this really grand plan for my blog for 2024, each month following a similar plan and pattern, offering learnings in a predictable
What does CTMT mean? It means “Cancer Teaches Me Things” “There has been nothing like cancer to teach me about the things that matter. Things mattered before, sure, but different things matter and things
What does CTMT mean? It means “Cancer Teaches Me Things” “There has been nothing like cancer to teach me about the things that matter. Things mattered before, sure, but now different things matter and
Cancer teaches me things. Cancer teaches me things. That’s the entire premise of The Purposed Sailor. It’s the underpinning of every story and blog and concept and challenge I share. It’s an anchor point for
Changing landscapes. A sad isolation. Vertigo and vomit. Sirius and the dog days. My cancer diagnosis shattered me. Let me first say that I am absolutely okay admitting that. There is this assumption that
Reflections. Elusive hope. Toxic hope. A kind hope. A story in a story. We write stories all of the time. There are those that retell the past, full of memories both good and bad.
Waking up to do. Decisions to make. Boundaries to set. Status quos to challenge. This is for anyone surviving anything because there is a certain camaraderie in the incessance of surviving. Life events that
The urgent. The trudge. Cancer teaches me things. BothAnd. I have a very different relationship with time now because of cancer. Cancer does this weird thing with time – it becomes crystal clear that
Something occurred to me today. It could be that I’m slow on the uptake and this is not a new insight for my fellow carcinomies (that’s what we call each other), but it’s new
*This is *my* experience, not everyone’s. Also, this is authenticity. That’s what you get with me. I want to model that which I value. Also, also, I continue to document my cancer story to