Year: 2012

The music in your heart is always in tune

ImageMy hubby Mark ( the one in the Blue Shirt with the really nice legs) always gives me great cards.

I have treasured this one from the day he gave it to me. Inspiring. And so true. One of the boxes on the card says, “Keep dancing.”  One of my favorite things to do. Dance. Especially with him.

Keep dancing, yes indeed.

Dance with life.

Even when it clearly sucks. Right now there are indeed some s*cky aspects. Mark’s cancer started to take off because he was not able to be treated. Eeek.

So it’s a battle and I am looking to make a miracle. I live in that possibility of magic and miracles. I wear a bracelet from my friend Payson Cooper that says Expect Miracles. I pray for one daily and could use some help here. If you pray, please put Mark in there somewhere. I do not care what your faith is just please have some for him. Whatever it is for you.  And thank you for that.

When I look at this photo of us taken in Cancun in 1991, I am grateful we got to take this silly shot in Cancun.

Don’t we look chic in our snorkling gear?

Mark is wearing an Aruba shirt and I am wearing one that I found blowing on the beach that says Can-cun just like Coca-Cola.  We are about to go snorkling in a man-made place I remember it was a bit strange the water murky and a little too warm and the fish looked like they were tired of all the tourists.

No matter. The drive over there from our little eco-resort in our tan Volkswagon beetle was priceless.

(Like the Mastercard commercial.)

When I think about that trip and some of the other adventures we have taken together both away and right here in NY, I long for a few more of those days again.

As grateful as I think I am I get to see that sometimes I can be a wretch of silent complaining of how bad things are right now and then “poof” in a instant I snap out of it and give it up so I can ask for what I want instead..so.here is it.

What I want for my sweet handsome hubby Mark is to make a miracle for him please  one more time and bring him to wellness and more good hours than suck-y hours. He may have been dealt a very unlucky cancer card, but I am praying for good fortune to smile on Mark.

Message to the big guy>>>May the meds work.

Mark is someone who changed the lives of children in some of the most under-served communities in NYC.

An educator with a caring heart and a flair for creativity and bringing math to life.

Please give Mark stability and wellness and a date to skate in Central Park again.

I know you got it in you.

Gratefully yours.

“You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.” -Constantine Peter Cavafy, Greek Poet

Recipe: Fresh Homemade Coconut Milk

Yum! Coconut milk is good for you. Know this it does have 552 calories from healthier fat than say that Chocolate mocha chai latte syrupy thing full of sugar or sweetener.
Studies have shown that the healthy fat will help with good cholesterol. Keep your motor running.

Go ahead and break those balloons

The life you save may be your own. And the whales and other giant sea creatures who ingest your “happy 40th birthday” balloons
Save the whales people❤❤

Do this: after the party is over-
1. Pop all balloons especially if you are lucky enough to have a party at the beach.
Pick up the popped balloons and please toss them in the trash.
You will be doing such a good thing for all.

Hot town summer

Is this a poem?

So  far from what I can tell.

This is the sizzling
summer of the hot and the buggy.
(Who you calling buggy?)
It’s been…
Muggy.
Yuggee.

I mean yucky.

Okay so.

Let it go.
Imagine snow?
Live in possibility.

I am the possibility of Jo’ie de Vivre

(Francaise for joy in life thanks France for that)
July 14, 2012
Nancy in New York

FancyNancy and Magic Mark on the boardwalk.

on
Bastille Day.

Small gifts

Today Mark and I went to Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center. It’s his follow-up after an 8 week state of siege over his kidney function. He was in renal failure and needed an emergency procedure over the Passover-Easter holidays. Amazingly his cancer is holding steady. Which is a relief. I am grateful to Dr. Schwartz for whatever he does on Mark’s behalf. Liposarcoma is a scary card to have drawn.

I overheard one woman in the waiting area say two things one was,” hey I can still get up and walk and look at the sky, so that is something to be joyful about.”
The other was a quote from Woody Allen, ” We are all going to die, it’s just that I prefer not to be there when it happens.”

I interviewed Mark the other day in Long Beach about summer coming.