Cancer: The word means nothing to most people. But to the people who have it, or those close to them, the word means everything.

But when Spring begins, the days start to get longer, and the world begins to thaw. This is the true turning point for me. Both plants and people are coming out of hibernation. We’re all waking up and ready to clean out Winter’s leftovers and replace them with hope.

They had nothing to say to each other. That much was obvious as they started to walk down the cobbled sidewalk. The trees were displaying vibrant colors of orange and red, the slight breeze was crisp and clean, and a school bus passed across the street. Autumn was Clarissa’s favorite time of year. Stealing a ...

Sisters – Part 1 Sisters – Part 2 Sisters – Part 3 I remembered the disappointed looks I received from my sisters when I left family dinners early due to my ill health. The most recent time was last Christmas. It was also one of the few times all of us girls were together. I ...

Sisters – Part 1 Sisters – Part 2 “What do you think made her send it now? Melissa and I have long since made up, but at the last reunion Lisa was still snobby towards me.”  “No, she wasn’t,” my dad said. “Yes, she was, David,” my mom responded. “You didn’t notice it because you ...

footprints march the sand as you did though the memory now fades as the ocean tide washes them away and when the sun settles for the night to come i watch the infinite stars circle eternity around my head i remember you traced them with a finger interconnecting constellations and regaling me with stories of ...

My father had the great luck, or amazing foresight, to have “I love you” be last words he said to his children. I remember sitting on the floor, on my mother’s favorite blanket, sewn by her grandmother. The sun didn’t quite breach the gray cloud cover outside our screen door. There was a movie, The ...

October 10, 2015 Sunday mornings in October meant getting up early to work at the Hilti Ballfields. Dad served as the head groundskeeper there, making sure that the fields were in order for the little league games. He hired my siblings and I to walk the fields an hour before dawn to pick up the ...

It’s easy for someone to forget that I’m not okay. I am good at putting on the ‘okay’ face and pretending that my heart isn’t still horribly mangled from losing my dad. It isn’t something I bring up meeting new people because I don’t want to be the “sad kid.” When someone makes an insensitive ...

I love astrology almost as much as I love the paranormal … almost. What is fascinating about astrology is the fact, there is so much more to you than your sun sign. A sun sign is the day you were born and where it fits within the 30-day cycle of that sign. Using myself as ...