I am reminded through the beauty, grace and sincerity of each domestic violence victim I meet that time is gold ... time is precious ... time is now.  In today's class at Haven House, one of the clients was bemoaning the fact that she let her ch...

This blog was provided by a patient who attended the C4YW Conference. Since my previous post I tried many, MANY times, in good faith, but was simply not capable of revisiting my experience of C4YW, the Annual Conference for Young Women Affected by Br...

One of the exercises I take my cancer patients through in my Write to Heal class is the simple scribbling and doodling about what it means to heal. What does it mean to heal? According to the dictionary:heal  (hl) v. healed, heal·ing, hea...

"Life can humble you in a way that also empowers and enriches you."  A Woman with Wings. The following lovely passage is from one of my writing students, who continues her fight with breast cancer.  The assignment that day was to remember o...