Rebecca S. Krantz

Though it is very wintry outside and I am ready for spring, I am grateful to be celebrating my 51st birthday this week. As regular readers know, I have also just passed the three-year anniversary of my cancer diagnosis. Don and I had our last annual checkup with my breast surgeon on April 3rd (“We’re breaking […]

I recently started working through The Artists Way by Julia Cameron with my next-door neighbor. We get together periodically to discuss a chapter and how our “homework” is going. The main homework I’ve taken on, as part of my morning practice, is “Morning Pages” – three pages written longhand every morning. I started off committing

March 6th 2018!!  Today marks 3 years since my breast cancer diagnosis. For Triple Negative Breast Cancer, which mine was, this is significant, both statistically and emotionally. For many other forms of breast cancer, 5 years is the anniversary most celebrated (although metastatic cancer can still show up after longer intervals). My understanding is that because

In early January, I began a profound excursion into a new part of my healing shame journey: reclaiming singing. Ever since I was a child, I have believed that I can’t “carry a tune.” In elementary school musical tryouts, I would get cast as a narrator, because I had a strong and confident speaking voice,

I’ve been making more time to write, including “morning pages” from Julia Cameron’s The Artists Way. I’m practicing being open and seeing what comes. Not all of what comes belongs in public, and i’m not sure about this one, but here it is, only slightly edited from how it came to me during a writing