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After traveling home from Missouri, I've been really struggling this week to find the motivation to write a blog post. It's not that there isn't anything to write. Quite the opposite. There is so much I want to say that I cannot pick one single topic that is more important than the others. If you… Continue reading Finding the Motivation to Write
I read somewhere that Cancer takes everything from you. I refuse to accept this. Yesterday started rough for me. After traveling all day and not getting much sleep the night before, I woke up moody. So did the baby. We were both a little ornery and sleepy. My brother and his two little kids came… Continue reading Things Cancer Can’t Have From Me
Yesterday was my granddaughter's first birthday. We had a very small party for her at our house. There were several factors that led to the "small" party.
A few nights ago, as I was preparing to return to Wisconsin for a couple of weeks, we decided to have an impromptu game night with my dad. He has stage 4 lung cancer and has just finished a rigorous 7-week schedule of radiation and chemotherapy treatments. He hasn't been feeling well enough to do much more than watch television and sleep.
Writing in the time of COVID-19 I see a lot of posts online about what people are doing during the coronavirus pandemic. I wasn't sure what to write about today, so I decided to share my own story with you.
I think that a lot of people have a relative or special person in their life that made their childhood bearable when it truly wasn't. For me, that was Grandma Margie. She was the one person I could always turn to, no matter what chaos my life was going through.
Hello and welcome! I'm eager to share my writing with the world around me.
Cathy Marie Bown 