There's no place like hygge for the holidays!
A boy I met in the hospital gifted me a book of untranslatable words. I was obsessed with words from other languages that had no translation to English, especially the ones that described a feeling. At the time my days almost exclusively revolved around my weekend long chemos in the hospital and weekdays back and forth to the city for appointments and blood transfusions. My feelings at the time were understandably much too big for my heart to hold, so finding these words was a revelation. Ever the word enthusiast, I’ve been known to collect especially favored words that embodied...
The Logo. A story.
Right after my 27th birthday I found myself on a walk, with my two dogs I never should have gotten. This was shortly after my second cancer diagnosis, which was shortly after my stem cell transplant, which was nearly one whole year after numerous failed treatments, but right around the time I found out I had irreparable lung damage and would be in treatment for my cancer indefinitely. My two long haired doxies that were meant to be my lazy lap dogs. My emotional support dogs who ended up needing a lot of their own emotional and physical support. We...