Robin’s Smile
 She can’t clap with just one hand,
She can’t click her heels with just one leg,
But Oh, how she can smile!
 
Picture yourself meditating,
Calmed, refreshed.
Then you hear that tiny bell,
 
That’s Robin’s smile.
This is not specifically about Cancer; it’s about overcoming any adversity, overcoming it with grace. My wife and I were attending a 6 week workshop on living with a chronic condition. In the class was a young lady living with a condition which requires daily home dialysis, a condition [ ... ]

Our Writing For Wellness group in Maryland just finished its first year together. We meet twice a month; there are usually six to eight attendees. It has been very gratifying to see the obvious progress we have all made in that year, progress in writing skills and in emotional healing.
Initially we concentrated on just Cancer, with its physical and emotional scars. Practically all the prompts involved the Big C. But as we healed, the subjects of the assignments broadened out, letting [ ... ]

    How does it all come together? Take a remembered comment about Cancer at a Writing For Cancer meeting, add a rereading of the myth of Pandora, throw in a newletter from City of Hope, and you have a poem:
                         Pandora’s Box of Cancer
With cancer comes your own personal Pandora’s Box,
Full of pain, full of grief, and designed by Zeus just for you.
Radiation, Chemo, Anxiety and Depression fly out of that box,
Trying to conquer you, trying to overwhelm you.
But keep [ ... ]