Life is messy. And it’s really beautiful too.

Throughout the years Michele shared so many beautiful blog posts, words of wisdom, life experiences and raw honesty on her blog; A Crack in the Wall. Click the link to read through her stories.

So honored that A Crack in the Wall was selected as one of Healthline’s 2020 Best Cancer Blogs of the Year!

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the making of a legacy

“We ran barefoot most of the summer and took pride in who could walk across the hot pavement and not flinch. I tried, like my cousins, to not even slow down when we reached Aunt Ruth’s gravel driveway. Rockfoot we called it. My sister had it best.

But not in Grandpap’s basement. Always shoes in Grandpap’s basement, where metal shavings and grease made the floor….” click here to read more

The tear and the fray

“…Only one thing to do 
in the tear and the fray.
Stand up and look outward.
Find the threads that will stay

to wrap tight round my center 
in the love that remains. 
To find simple beauties. 
To be them again. "

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Guest Post, Cancer is my aunt’s big curveball

“There are some people - a few, those thoughtful ones - that see big moments in the glimpse of a day. Those that realize that we are spinning on a globe, as it rotates around the sun, each of us along our own thread of time. Time that is happening, right now.

It’s happening in the mist as we hike with a friend. Happening at a meeting at work. As we make dinner. And for my 17-year-old nephew, Hayden, it’s happening as he plays baseball."…”

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