by Tina | Feb 29, 2024 | Thoughts
It’s Leap Day, and while I wouldn’t say I’m jumping for joy, today’s events will be a springboard for the next phase of this journey. My treatments to kill the cancer cells began today, and, as one of the many people attending to me today said, “it is kind of...
by Tina | Feb 18, 2024 | Thoughts
I spend a lot of time in a comfy blue recliner looking at this tree. It’s called an American Sycamore, and you can’t tell from the picture, but it’s about 200 feet tall (This is just the top portion). I never really noticed it behind my home until this year. Now, I...
by Tina | Feb 10, 2024 | Thoughts
I’ve never been a great swimmer, and after the bone surgeon filled the tumor in my arm with cement, I decided I’ll probably have to use a floatie when I go swimming from now on. Given the path I’ll be on and the great unknown ahead, I’ve thought a lot about how to...
by Tina | Feb 4, 2024 | Thoughts, Updates
“Hope is an incredibly powerful and often overlooked psychological force. During the 1950s, Curt Richter, a Denver native, Harvard Graduate and scientist with John Hopkins University, conducted a profound (and by today’s standards incredibly cruel) experiment on...
by Tina | Jan 31, 2024 | Thoughts
I was so excited to have a month of healing and normalcy. Unfortunately, just a week after the surgery to remove my tumor, I started to have a great deal of pain in my back. Posture? The new recliner Bill bought me? Lack of movement? What? After several days of trying...
by Tina | Jan 31, 2024 | Thoughts
In my studying of the scriptures this year, my study book (Come, Follow Me), said this, “If you ever wonder why bad things happen to good people, you may find insights in these chapters. But perhaps more important, you will see what good people do when bad...
