A lot can happen in 5 months. Since April 2023 (in this order) my hubby and I bought a new house with a long settlement, put our house on the market, I was diagnosed with cancer, we sold our home, we became homeless and moved into my hubby’s family home for 8 weeks (with our…

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One of the least visible challenges of living with cancer is not always the disease itself, but how it is held by other people. 2025, the Year of the Wood Snake, asked me to sit with medical uncertainty. I found myself back inside uncertainty. Surveillance scans. PET results that didn’t quite line up. A lymph…

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2025 has been a year of reckoning with my body. Not one I planned, but one that unfolded slowly, insistently, and without asking my permission. I started calling it the Year of Waiting, not only for myself but my husband and eldest son. In Chinese astrology, 2025 is the Year of the Wood Snake. The…

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