I recently posted on the story of Paul and Kathy, a couple who are relying on the kindness of strangers to see them through a difficult time in their lives right now. There has been a wonderful response from readers, and I want to say thank you for your concern and offers of help. Taiya [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Update: homeless with cancer
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged homeless with cancer on February 28, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Smile Saturday
Posted in Humour, tagged disco, Humour on February 27, 2010 | 15 Comments »
Poetry Friday
Posted in Inspiration, tagged cancer treatment, daffodils, poetry friday, signs of spring, spring on February 26, 2010 | 19 Comments »
Pictured above are the daffodils which right now are brightening up my kitchen window-sill. When I stand at the sink clearing up after meals, I am cheered by their sunshiny golden gorgeousness. I love the fact that they bloom each year faithfully, right where they are planted. There they sit in the frozen, hard, ground all [...]
A husband’s story
Posted in Family, Guest Blog, tagged Andy Koehn, breast cancer, guest blog post, husband, lost wife to cancer on February 25, 2010 | 49 Comments »
Today I am truly honored to share with you a male voice on this blog, and what a voice! Andy Koehn and I have been getting to know each other via Twitter for the past few months and his quirky, funny, and unique take on life was instantly appealing. Andy is open and honest about his struggles raising [...]
In need of a little motivation?
Posted in Inspiration, Video Content, tagged Inspiration, motivation, motivation video on February 24, 2010 | 17 Comments »
Homeless with cancer
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged endometrial cancer, homeless with cancer, radical hysterectomy, salpingo oopherectomy on February 23, 2010 | 25 Comments »
Cancer is never a straight-forward journey. Right from the moment of diagnosis, it is easy to feel overwhelmed by treatment decisions to be made, practical arrangements to be put in place for your job, your home, or child-care arrangements. For the lucky ones, we can turn to a support team of family, friends and community. Or perhaps [...]
Meat Free Monday
Posted in Healthy Recipes, Lifestyle, Recipe, Uncategorized, tagged chickpea curry, chickpeas, cooking with pulses, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, kale, kombu, River Cottage, vegetarian curry, vegetarian recipe on February 22, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Pulses, specifically chickpeas, form the basis of today’s Meat Free Monday recipe. The recipe comes from Mr River Cottage, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, and makes a hearty, wholesome and satisfying meal. I usually have both the dried and tinned varieties of pulses in my store-cupboard. The dried taste marginally better and it feels more virtuous to do the whole soaking [...]
Smile Saturday
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged smile saturday on February 20, 2010 | 12 Comments »
Poetry Friday
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Co Sligo, Irish poetry, John Butler Yeats, William Butler Yeats on February 19, 2010 | 3 Comments »
William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin in 1865, the son of a well-known Irish painter, John Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in County Sligo, where his parents were raised, and in London. He returned to Dublin at the age of fifteen to continue his education and study painting, but quickly discovered he preferred [...]
Andrew Lloyd Webber reflects on his brush with cancer
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cancer, prostate cancer, Sir Andrew Lloyed Webber on February 18, 2010 | 6 Comments »
I was reading in last weekend’s newspapers of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber’s reflections on his recent brush with cancer. In October last year, Sir Andrew was diagnosed with prostate cancer, and admits that the months since – filled with surgery, hospital appointments and conversations about how to tell the children – have given him ‘something of [...]
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