Cancer Archives - Soft In Hard Places https://lisapullenkent.com/tag/cancer/ Musings on Mothering, Metamorphosis and More Wed, 05 Nov 2025 16:28:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://i0.wp.com/lisapullenkent.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-daisies-2485064_1920-1-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Cancer Archives - Soft In Hard Places https://lisapullenkent.com/tag/cancer/ 32 32 52246340 Cancer in a COVID World https://lisapullenkent.com/cancer-in-a-covid-world/ https://lisapullenkent.com/cancer-in-a-covid-world/#comments Fri, 08 May 2020 20:29:55 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=2456 Lately, my emotions are scrubbed up raw. Tender, like new skin. My nerve endings fire all the time. I feel everything without a buffer, as if there are no more desensitizing layers laid down with busy, distracted, numbing activity. Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/cancer-in-a-covid-world/feed/ 12 2456 Just Breathe https://lisapullenkent.com/just-breathe/ https://lisapullenkent.com/just-breathe/#respond Tue, 17 Mar 2020 19:47:33 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=1217 Re-posted from March 6, 2014 “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart.I am, I am, I am.” Sylvia Plath There’s a stillness that descends on the hospital late at night, softening the harshness … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/just-breathe/feed/ 0 1217 Swallowed in Sorrow https://lisapullenkent.com/swallowed-in-sorrow/ https://lisapullenkent.com/swallowed-in-sorrow/#respond Wed, 31 May 2017 00:12:14 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=1951 In the hush of the hotel room I hear cars rushing by on the busy interstate. Above the hum of the fan, a far-off siren rises and recedes. It’s late. My teenage daughters make their cozy bed on the pullout … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/swallowed-in-sorrow/feed/ 0 1951 The Light Between Us https://lisapullenkent.com/the-light-between-us/ https://lisapullenkent.com/the-light-between-us/#respond Wed, 19 Mar 2014 22:42:25 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=1237 One love, one blood, one life.You got to do what you should.One life with each other, Sisters and Brothers.One life, but we’re not the same. We get to carry each other, carry each other. One, U2 She doesn’t even know … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/the-light-between-us/feed/ 0 1237 Making Tear Soup https://lisapullenkent.com/making-tear-soup/ https://lisapullenkent.com/making-tear-soup/#respond Thu, 28 Nov 2013 15:34:08 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=916 “Are you going to Colorado tomorrow, Mom?” Sydney stands in front of the refrigerator and asks the question for the third time this morning. “No, honey.  Two weeks, remember?  In two weeks.” I gently nudge her out of the way … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/making-tear-soup/feed/ 0 916 The Only Way Out is Through https://lisapullenkent.com/the-only-way-out-is-through/ https://lisapullenkent.com/the-only-way-out-is-through/#comments Mon, 30 Sep 2013 05:29:01 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=716 Grief lives in our house. Among the furniture, between the windows and the walls, it sits, thick and unmoving. Grief rides heavy on my chest. I can’t get a good, deep breath these days. It weighs down my husband’s shoulders and molds his features. Grief seeps into our nights of restless sleep and dreams of forgetting, of waking, and then remembering. Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/the-only-way-out-is-through/feed/ 16 716 Give and Take https://lisapullenkent.com/give-and-take/ https://lisapullenkent.com/give-and-take/#respond Wed, 04 Sep 2013 00:44:52 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=674   You are my love and my life. You are my inspiration. Just you and me. Simple and free. Baby, you’re everything I’ve ever dreamed of.  Just You And Me by Chicago   “Al, I need ice.” With a white … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/give-and-take/feed/ 0 674 The Essence of Her Presence https://lisapullenkent.com/the-essence-of-her-presence/ https://lisapullenkent.com/the-essence-of-her-presence/#comments Tue, 07 May 2013 12:31:24 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=44 She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies . . . Lord Byron (George Gordon) When I was 13 I sketched my mother’s profile in church.  Regal, she sat with her chin tilted upward, receiving … Continue reading →

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]]> https://lisapullenkent.com/the-essence-of-her-presence/feed/ 1 44 In the Love Place https://lisapullenkent.com/in-the-love-place/ https://lisapullenkent.com/in-the-love-place/#respond Wed, 10 Oct 2012 03:41:46 +0000 http://lisapullenkent.com/?p=89 And so lying underneath those stormy skies She’d say, oh, I know the sun must set to rise. Paradise by Coldplay ~For Richard, Heidi and Gabriel~ It was Sunday afternoon. The weekend that seemed to stretch out enticingly before me … Continue reading →

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