Did you notice that I changed my subtitle about a month ago? My subtitle used to describe and summarize my cancer from a medical point of view. I moved that summary to the sidebar under "My Cancer Journey ."
Why did I make that change? I had decided that it was time to give my blog a bit of focus.
Last November I posted that I was going to overhaul my blog and make it less about breast cancer. As soon as I made that announcement, I had a recurrance scare. And at that point I realized that this was meant to be my breast cancer blog, even if (God willing) I move further and further out from active treatment.
But it took me a while to figure out where my blog was going. It's become clear to me that while I'm interested in stuff like the latest research and public policy, that's not the niche that I want to blog about.
So I let it and myself drift a bit, and discovered that what really intrigues me is the intersection of cancer and creativity.
I get very excited when I run across people who are using their Survivorship and their artistic talents (literary, visual, dance, music, quilting, whatever ) to raise awareness or funds, or to help others grow creatively so that they too can know the healing power of the arts.
It has taken a lot to get me to today: my family, my faith, and better-living-through-chemistry.
But without my writing, designing my garden, photographing my garden, perfecting my strawberry smoothie recipe in order to use up the twelve pounds of strawberries that I picked with my kids, working on my Spanish, studying HTML, and planning parties - I'd have starved along the route.
Strawberry Smoothies -Yumm
Memorial Day weekend, we picked strawberries on Friday. Saturday & Sunday we had people coming and going and I kept a bowl of strawberries available. They were so fresh and sweet that we gobbled them up.
By Monday, this was all that remained of twelve pounds of strawberries.
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