August 2020

Deep Breathing through a Bad Air Day

The San Francisco Bay Area, where I live, has been in the national news of late, due to the lightning-sparked wildfires consuming our state. Our region is surrounded by record-setting fires, and as a result our air has become smoky. The Air Quality Index (AQI) has for days been in the “hazardous for all people” range, with a few respites in the evening as winds change. As a lung cancer survivor, minus one lung lobe and afflicted with asthma, I am hunkerin’ down at home with the A/C and fan running night and day, sealed against the hazy soup that […]

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Book Launch Is Underway!

The steps toward publishing my first book Deep Breathing: Finding Calm amid Cancer Anxiety are accelerating to a run these days! The book has been a long time comin’ . . . the original journal during my six-month cancer adventure in 2013-14 had to be whittled from 140,000 words to 80,000 for publication—no small feat, and I had lots of help! Currently, I am rereading it in its various formats to give final approval for ePUB and Kindle, as well as the print version. The mechanics of getting a book in the hands of an intended audience have many moving

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