Author Archives: terrilma

Bandages, Crayons and White Myopia

Posted on January 17, 2022 by terrilma

“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity” Martin Luther King Jr.” I learned something at a late age a few days ago. I had a sore on my face and wanted to cover … Continue reading →

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What I learned from my brain tumor

Posted on September 12, 2021 by terrilma

I just grow things. The latest was a benign meningioma in the left frontal lobe. It grew slowly for 10 years before causing inflammation and symptoms of dementia which led to it being discovered on a MRI brain scan. It … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Resources for living with cancer

Posted on September 5, 2021 by terrilma

As I’m editing this issue of the Healing Circles Newsletter, the air in San Francisco has been smokey for over a week. Each day I see more people wearing respirator masks a reminder of the growing toll of people who … Continue reading →

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The Unexpected

Posted on February 26, 2020 by terrilma

Pelosi Statement on Supreme Court Shadow Ruling on Texas Reproductive Rights Case SEPTEMBER 2, 2021  PRESS RELEASE  Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement after the Supreme Court ruled in the middle of the night to leave SB8, the … Continue reading →

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Norway – Karen

Posted on December 30, 2017 by terrilma

Karen is still with me Once in a while I think I see her walking down the street A tall white blonde woman There must be others with her hair color but I don’t see them Yesterday I had the … Continue reading →

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Trip to Tromsø – intro

Posted on November 23, 2017 by terrilma

Here I am on Thanksgiving 2017 with Sia in Trosmsø listening to soft rock Christmas music and preparing to go out to eat fish.  I’m liking the polar night, the blue time, the chill snow, and loving the company.  Of … Continue reading →

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The Unknown Companion

Posted on March 30, 2017 by terrilma

Have I been patient long enough? Have you? Are you even still there? It’s been over three years since I updated this blog.  Much and little has changed. I am well, no recurrence of cancer as far as I know. … Continue reading →

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Life goes on – Dia de los muertes- written in Fall 2015

Posted on November 3, 2014 by terrilma

and we are put on earth a little space, that we may learn to bear the beams of love- William Blake Wow, for two years I have been silent, i don’t know why. My last post at the end of 2013 … Continue reading →

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Patience

Posted on December 31, 2013 by terrilma

“Patience is also a form of action.” ― Auguste Rodin This is what I tell myself as the weeks have turned into months and I have not updated this blog in spite of my conscious intentions.  Today as 2013 reels off … Continue reading →

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Norway trip – Image sandwiches

Posted on August 23, 2013 by terrilma

Aug 23 – Last night I was going through all the photos from our Norway trip.   The first dream I remember returning home was an image of a Softis  (Norwegian softserve ice cream cone) sprinkled with red fish roe. … Continue reading →

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