What a crazy adventure we’re in. So many have spoken, sharing their take, their opinions, their facts, their jokes, their love. Up until now I’ve felt, inste...

Hi blog readers! Dropping in to share some fun news :) Today I am launching a new podcast I'm with my amazing friend and colleague, Brianne Grebil. She and ...

Eight years before trading in my ovaries for a cancer diagnosis, I knew I was ready for real healing. Popping pills and suppressing symptoms was the only ga...

Most people beyond my inner circle have no idea that I hurt, a lot, somewhere between my head and my hips for at least a chunk of almost every day. I rarely...

As I listened to my friend’s family share stories at her funeral, I couldn’t help but smile as I realized the problem she’d come to me with a few months back...

I can still remember the moment, 20 years ago, when I first glimpsed a baby’s head coming out of my body. It was the only time “Oh My God” has ever come out ...

I only pretend to like roller coasters and I’ve always abhorred the idea of cliff jumping, so I had to laugh at myself when I realized that, metaphysically, ...

In the midst of creating this blog, I debated whether to include posts from an old one written during my cancer adventure. Exploring death woke me up to lif...

Hello gorgeous people, A few thoughts as we wrap up our grand adventure… At our kickoff in January, I fell into the most amazing bliss - the bliss of knowing...

I’d just finished putting into words what I wanted help with when John, my prospective coach, asked, “How important is your story to you, Mer?”  Even without...

You know that goopy stage in between crawling around like a caterpillar and taking flight, the phase where it looks like nothing is happening while a massive...

While walking in the most gorgeous snowfall this week, I was listening to Justin Timberlake’s Can’t Stop the Feeling and I just couldn’t help it, I started d...

One year ago today I woke up from surgery in menopause and with a cancer diagnosis. It's been one hell of a year, a packed 12 months to say the least - the m...

“Yay! You’re not going to die!,” Cam said, when I told him my latest CT scan was clear. Steve and I, on the other hand, just wanted a nap. It’s exhausting to...

I’ve been on the hunt for a while, looking for a great place to process my cancer-related 'stuff.' I want to engage with people who know cancer and 'get it',...

Though I'd welcome a faster pace, when I look behind me a few weeks I can see I'm actually getting somewhere. The exhaustion still shows up but not as often ...

Having lived 40 plus years with the undercurrent of expectation that I'd live a long life, I find myself post-cancer unable to swallow this assumption wholeh...

Been holing up for a while to let the mental and emotional dust settle. The weeks since finishing chemo have been surprisingly intense - lots of body pain an...

Can't tell the story of my cancer adventure without a post about sjm (my favorite name for him). All bias aside, he is a MOST lovable human being.  Back in ...