It was Blood Draw Day and I SO did not want to go. My almost weekly Small Stabbings served to find out whether an infection was raging through me, and my immune system was seriously in danger thus requiring even more Medicallyness, or if – yippee, zippity doo dah – I was cleared for yet… Continue reading Dancing at the edge of town
Author: lizgardner2278
Preface to Cancer
At the time of my cancer diagnosis I had not yet launched my blog. I’d been working on a blog – or three – Before Cancer (BC): one about EcoGardening, one about LakeLiving and one about other pieces of my life. Cancer shut all that down. Cancer seized so many parts and pieces of my… Continue reading Preface to Cancer
Accidental Gardener
(written May 2013) Becoming a restorative home gardener was an accidental journey. I wanted to be on another, very different, journey: a return to my childhood Colorado mountains. I wanted to go back to the pine, fir and spruce-lined trails heading up to timberline and beyond. To be high up on the tundra. I longed… Continue reading Accidental Gardener
Swimming back to shore
Right before Georgie fell in. After five years of being a kayak kitty. Lesson for the day: a motivated cat can swim to shore. Even an old cat. Even a cat who looks like a skeleton draped in gorgeous fur. Even a cat who needs twice-daily meds. Even a 13+ year old cat whose brother… Continue reading Swimming back to shore
For Natalie
Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones fell into my lap some decades ago. It grabbed me. And Natalie has had a gentle but firm hold on me ever since. I think I’ve read everything she’s written. I lived in New Mexico for the bulk of my adult life, at the same time she was living… Continue reading For Natalie
Breaking News (And) it’s not good.
Cancer Chronicles – Dancing with Death Facebook post of March 06, 2018 8:51 am I have gone back and forth (and back and forth…) about posting the following. So many people are struggling with so many things – BIG and not as big – that I was reluctant to post my current medical situation. It’s… Continue reading Breaking News (And) it’s not good.