Tag: cancer

A reflection on post-pandemic isolation, family, and loss, exploring how faith and relationships can restore hope and human connection.

The stories of the intersection of diversity and commonality, of empathy and intentional engagement traveled with me into the academy as an ethnographer.

Each day, as I got out of my bed, I found myself walking the halls of the University of Washington Hospital, hooked up to life-sustaining IVs. As I passed by opened doors, anything but oblivious, I gazed into the rooms of perfect strangers. Each was on their own journey of crisis, some getting better, others, not so.

During both my healing journeys, I never really feared the Lymphoma, never got angry at it, never depressed, never saw it as somehow an enemy, to be fought, battled and defeated, though it certainly represented the antithesis of my existence.

From May 16-18 The Franciscan Place at St. Joseph Family Center will host a Women's Cancer Survivor Retreat. "This is a unique opportunity to be among other women who understand just how life can change in an instant," the organization said in an announcement.

Death has never made itself more personal than when it came calling for my daughter, Aria. She was 4 years old.

I'm looking forward to writing about the values exhibited through the animal community.