Breathe

A blog for people living with secondary cancer

  • February 8, 2026

    Sound and silence

    Sound and silence

    January was characterised by silence. It was probably a good thing to pause and begin the new year thoughtfully but, by the end, it felt like January had lasted a whole year all by itself. For the greater part of the day, unless I happened upon another soul at my art studio or at a…

  • December 16, 2025

    Funk

    Funk

    Why does it get harder to write as this goes on? I have so much I want to say and quite a lot of things I can’t say as the future works itself out. Many of the things I want to say when I start to write aren’t positive. I have been swept up in…

  • February 5, 2025

    Welcome to my blog

    Hello Folks, My name’s Angela. If you’ve found your way here I am guessing you are either a) a relative b) a friend c) also dealing with your own diagnosis. Either way hello/welcome/I’m sorry. It’s a shock. I’m a 51 year old mother of three kids, a wife, a sister, a daughter. Professionally I’m a…

  • March 7, 2026

    Ibizan Retreat

    Ibizan Retreat

    This post was finished in retrospect – some things are hard to process at the moment. Even the good stuff. I’m experiencing some late reactions to trauma I think. Something to do with being told you have only a short time to live and then having to reverse back out of the cul de sac.…

  • January 4, 2026

    Into the Woods

    Into the Woods

    I’ve been writing this post since New Year’s Day trying to get my head around what it means to move into another year and slowly begin to pick up the pieces. Remembering what I was up to before the news almost a year ago. Just before Christmas we went to see Sondheim’s Into the Woods…

  • November 10, 2025

    Resonance

    Resonance

    Hello. I’m sorry I haven’t written for a while. How are you? I’ve missed you! To be honest, I’ve been avoiding you. Is that a little too honest? Haha if only we could say these things in everyday life. I have been avoiding myself the most perhaps. I have become a master or mistress of…

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