Update: Since posting this yesterday, there has been an even greater surge in online commentary about this story. Here is a link to a more condensed version. Although I read The Guardian newspaper… Continue reading
We’ve spent the first week of 2014 making resolutions about things we wish to achieve in the coming year. Even if we have framed them less as resolutions, and more as words to… Continue reading
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for Journeying Beyond Breast Cancer. It is always instructional to see what the most searched terms are, the most popular posts and the… Continue reading
Have you made any new year’s resolutions this year? It’s been a long time since I have, but I know that many people still embrace the start of a new year and how it offers… Continue reading
Debbie Millman via Brain Pickings
Since I first started blogging on WordPress in 2009 I wondered how the blogs on “Freshly Pressed” ( a showcase of daily editors’ picks from across the WordPress community) were chosen and truth be told harbored… Continue reading
Cancer diagnosis and treatment have undergone major changes in recent decades in Ireland: a National Cancer Control Programme has commenced and screening for breast and cervical cancer have been introduced. Here are the… Continue reading
Thanks to all of you who read and commented on yesterday’s post on grief. Once again I am struck by how much strength and comfort we can draw from each other. We should… Continue reading
Two years later and I am still grieving for my mother. I still grieve for the unborn baby I lost the week after her funeral, and for the babies unborn before that. I… Continue reading
