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
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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
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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
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Another new metaphor. Speaking of…. And then there’s…. So, on that note…. Another new metaphor. What a shipwreck cancer is. I was living life on charted waters, predictable to its highest degree possible. My
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Balloons. More balloons. Perspectives. More perspectives. Balloons. The vantage point of cancer changes the way I see time. It is in such a tilted kilter as it isn’t what it once was, and it
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Snowy perspectives. 1019182430. Crowded loneliness. Are you listening or. . . ? Snowy perspectives. I stare off into the distance out of the window nearby trying to find the place to start for this
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The significance of September. Altered. When vulnerability IS trauma. Tomorrow. The significance of September. This used to be a time of year that I yearned for. That moment when August turned September was the
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The Haunting. The Real. The Caution. The Toll. The Haunting The Ghost does not live controlled by time;ticking seconds to hours; days to years,birthday cake candles and calendar moments,seasons and sunrises, sunsets, and moon
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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
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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.