As a child, I dreamed of going to Africa some day on safari. Late at night I would drift to sleep hearing the imagined trumpeting of a bull elephant, and seeing visions of elegant giraffes moving like tall masted ships through the grasslands of the Serengeti behind my closed eyes. I read voraciously—first children’s books… Continue reading A True Story
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Happy Place
“Think of a place that’s really perfect. Your own happy place. Go there, and all your anger will just disappear. Then putt.” Happy Gilmore, 1996 I don’t know if I have ever heard my radiation therapists say this to a patient, anxious on the treatment table, “Go to your happy place.” I think I may… Continue reading Happy Place