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Thanksgiving & Gratitude
This has been the most difficult year of my life. There have been challenges in the past: injustices, illnesses and injuries, deaths and divorce, but nothing quite like the realization that I might...
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Sex, Lust and Cancer
The Kiss by Alex Grey I have a new piece up on RebelleSociety.com. It’s called Sex, Lust and Cancer: Tips for Staying Sexually Alive, and it’s by far the most personally revealing, intimate piece I...
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Electrifying Nantucket: one yoga pose at a time
On September 18th 2012, I taught my first yoga class at the newly reopened Dreamland Theater. Accompanied by the internationally acclaimed yoga spin master, DJ HyFi and buoyed up by the visionary...
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not done yet
I’ve long trusted the universe and for the better part of my adult life, have been able to put stock in something bigger than myself. I think that’s why my cancer diagnosis never crippled me. I have...
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how to love a chair
(photo: Larisa Forman) 16 months ago I invited you to join me on an adventure to CancerLand. Through my pieces on Rebelle Society and the more spontaneous posts here on my blog, I took you with me from...
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One Year Cancerversary
Healing Breast Cancer (photo: Larisa Forman) Dates are important to people with long-term illness: we celebrate them with a vengeance. We celebrate everything actually – because every moment we’re...
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My Tour de Pink
I’m a little nervous, but…I’ve slayed much bigger dragons in the last 2 years. Even so, in just a few days I’ll be on yet another slightly pause-worthy, solo adventure. And I get to check another first...
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get off my chest
It’s been a rough couple of weeks. I’ve lost four friends to cancer within just the last 10 days. Although we had three different types of breast cancer, Nora, Malaya and I were all diagnosed around...
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the cancer club
I thought that after they cut the port out of my chest, and the breast tissue out of my breasts, that it would be a long, long time before I had to go under the scalpel again. Hm…contrary to what I...
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Warrior Won
N Magazine Feature I am so grateful to N Magazine for this generous feature in the May 2015 edition. I feel very lucky to have had the opportunity to honor my fellow cancer warrior, Natasha Grosshans,...
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Insomnia and Perseverance
I wake up now, multiple times a night, usually soaked in sweat. Sometimes I wake at 1am, or 2am and go back to sleep, but typically I can’t. Or I don’t for hours and then I do; passing out just 30 to...
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back on the table
Today is the day: I’m on my way to MGH for a full hysterectomy and oophorectomy and hopefully all goes well. Last weekend I rode 200 mile on my bike, knowing this operation was on the other side, and...
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Over here: Thoughts on saying goodbye to your ovaries and other girl parts
Me in pre-op room, preparing for my Hysterectomy. Mass General Hosptial, October 16th, 2016. I’m 39 years old. And I’ll never had to worry about getting pregnant again. I don’t have to worry about...
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