My Third Eye: One Woman's Vision of the Great Mystery
Jane Underwood
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Birthday
- October 08
- Title
- Owner
- Company
- The Writing Salon
- Bio
- I'm a mother, writer, photographer (amateur), and owner of The Writing Salon, a school of creative writing for adults, in San Francisco. I'm also a woman living with breast cancer (since Aug. 2005), working to heal myself (and to understand just what that means, REALLY).
Since I'm beginning this blog six years after my breast cancer journey began, the first post is a flashback to that fateful day. The rest of this blog will be, I suspect, a kaleidoscopic mix of past and present, as I refer to the first six years of living with breast cancer... but also focus on the present. And the present contains a whole lot more than just breast cancer. So be forewarned: I will frequently digress.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Seance: A Message from My
Former Left Breast
October 10, 2012 12:43PM - Circus Mom Memories
November 22, 2011 11:04AM - Breaking Bad Series 4 Finale -
Oh Woe is Me!
October 13, 2011 11:43AM - Lenore Wants to Be Mad at Her
Breast Cancer But...Really?
October 11, 2011 02:49PM - Apropo of Nada: Five Women I
Like
October 06, 2011 02:54PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “A good theme,
refreshingly "plain" (in the
best way) rather
than
trendy…”
December 18, 2011 11:06PM - “For me (barely can cook,
certainly no chef), reading
about
food ITSELF gets
borin…”
December 18, 2011 10:56PM - “My favorite part is the
sweetness that transpired
between you
and your father.
Lo…”
December 18, 2011 10:37PM - “Thanks for commenting on
my blog, which allowed me
to
discover yours. I've
jumped…”
December 12, 2011 11:57AM - “Thank you Jerry! I am
smiling...I too have precious
little
physical (athletic)
co…”
November 23, 2011 12:32PM
Jane Underwood's Links
- My Links
- Musings on Love, Sex & Confusion...
- Urban Me
- My Links
- My Great Breast Cancer Adventure
- Breast Cancer Choices
- My Links
- My Flickr Photostream
- My.Third.Eye
- My Links
- Writing Salon Mistress Muses
- The Writing Salon
- My Links
- Lenore and I Wrestle with the Lump
- My Ache: Post-Mammogram Epiphany
- The Other Woman
Seance: A Message from My Former Left Breast
Spirit is here, sends
you her love,
wants you to know
she's sorry she had to leave
so soon. But says
not to worry,
she's doing fine.
There's something
about a scar, it's fairly new.
¨Do you understand?
She… Read full post »
Circus Mom Memories
PSY from marion bellin on Vimeo.
Breaking Bad Series 4 Finale - Oh Woe is Me!
Crap. My beloved Breaking Bad is over until its final
season happens, which won't be until NEXT SUMMER. A*!hole networks
and TV people, how can they make us wait that long?
… Read full post »
Lenore Wants to Be Mad at Her Breast Cancer But...Really?
Lenore turned her back for all of three seconds, and Olivia stole one of the carrots off the kitchen counter then raced with it, deliriously happy, out to the yard. This made Lenore smile. She could never stay mad at that dog. Who could she be mad/… Read full post »
Apropo of Nada: Five Women I Like
My title might be a lie, given that it now occurs to me that this post is my way of acknowledging Steve Job's passing. Why? Because I wasn't going to do an OS post today, until I watched the YouTube video of Jobs giving that graduation speech at Stanford. I wasn't… Read full post »
Musings on Love, Sex & Confusion...from the Moonlight Cafe
It was somewhere around the year 2000, give or take a year or two this way or that, and I thought, Who has time for cafes anymore? Sure, I had once hung out at cafes writing in my journals, pre-Wi Fi, but that had been back in my free-spirited twenties, before/… Read full post »
The Other Woman: She May Be Dying
Note: I wrote this piece twelve years ago and am reviving it now because I am struck by how its content relates to my current life as a breast
Doctors, Doctors, Who's at the Doctor's?
Doctors, doctors, who's at the doctor's? Or just back from the doctor's? Or about to leave for the doctor's? Or for the lab, to get more bloodwork. Or for the MRI or CAT scan room?… Read full post »
Urban Me: I Am Not Like that Woman in the Photo, But. . .
I am not like her, a smartly done up urban woman walking briskly down the street, a swirling array of long scarves bunched fashionably around my neck, coffee-to-go in hand, a bold red wall branded with black graffitti as my backdrop. This woman, in this particular environment… Read full post »
Lenore and I Wrestle with the Lump
THIS MORNING when I walk into the kitchen my Other Self, who I have given the name of Lenore, is sitting at the table painting her nails. I never paint my nails.
"I don't want to be buried in a coffin in a grave," she announces to me without looking up… Read full post »
My Breast Biopsy & Ensuing Personal Empowerment
My Third Eye: Then and Now
THEN:
When I was 27, I discovered my third eye: It was an orgasmic angel
that lived in the center of my forehead. I discovered it, or it
discovered me, when I was riding the bus back home after going to a
"church service" presided over by Pearl Shannon, a psychic who… Read full post »
Blogging Rule #1: Never Leave Your Dog Out of Your Blog
And never underestimate the healing power that a beloved pet can give to you. My dear Olivia Bouchet, terrier mutt extraordinaire, has alleviated tons of breast cancer stress and fear. She is one of my most important… Read full post »
When I arrive at the hospital, everything bodes surprisingly well. I locate and enter the parking lot that I worried I wouldn't know how to enter or pay for, then successfully navigate my way to the right elevator, then through the maze of hallways, and finally to the correct suite of… Read full post »
My First Post on Open Salon - Yikes, Oy Vey, Oh Dear, Etc.
I'm not yet sure what I'm going to call this blog. Not sure if I want the word Cancer to have the starring role. It's certainly going to be a main character, but the star? Maybe I'd be better off with a ensemble cast of characters: Cancer, Healing, Fear (terror), Courage,… Read full post »
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