Posts in category Life Beyond The Garden

It has been a long time since I’ve added an entry, and that’s because I have been, and still am, very ill. The cancer returned with a vengeance, ‘lots and …

Today I did something tremendously unusual. I went to visit a professional who attended to my bodily needs – and this visit did not involve any pain, it did not …

Wow. I wrote the Silence of the Dying blog, got a great weight off my chest, and then walked off and forgot about it. Since then everything has snow-balled and I …

Many years ago I did an hour long interview on Adelaide radio (with Jeremy Cordeaux, I think, but my memory may be wrong). The interview was supposed to promote one …

So there I was, sitting in a cab in the middle of Hobart this morning about 7 am, gazing with some noticeable jaw-drop at the skyscraper cruise ship sitting the …

Thank you for allowing me my rant. I really, really needed to do that. As Juliet said in the comments, everyone deals with cancer differently, everyone suffers a different kind …

If you’re not up to reading a really, really angry post, with a few choice words, then please go no further. Before I get started, though, I would like to …

Seth is well and ready to come home.  But I have to choose … I can fit in one more trip today (carrying load-wise) … Do I go pick up the …

Every 3 months I need to be reviewed by my oncologist. So every three months I go through enormous stress. Happily I have just got through today’s appointment so I …

First of all, thank you to everyone not saying, “Please, please write! We want another book!” LOL Trust me, books are now about fifth place in my life. I have always intensely …