Kaye Waller

"Where are the rules of grief written, and who do we offend when we write our own?" -Sally Britton For the life of me, no matter how many losses I've...

Having come of age in the 1970s, I came to the feminist movement more from a baptism of fire than from any political persuasion. By 1977, when I was 25...

I admit it's fun to listen to sad love songs when you're far away from the one you love. We all do it at some point in our lives. When...

I'm tired of losing my loved ones to cancer. I rarely use the word "hate," but I'm not averse to standing on a mountaintop and shouting my hate for cancer...

I don't mean to sound selfish or pitiful, but sometimes, as a caregiver to someone with cancer, I feel forgotten and invisible. People seem to forget to care for the...

As many of you know, I've been a caregiver for my friends and family since I was 18 years old, which is 52 years in total. In 1970, I gave...

At my age (I'll turn 73 in September), epiphanies are few and far between. That could be the price of grasping at life and all its experiences so greedily for...

All over the internet, you'll find pages and pages delineating the stages of cancer, caregiving, and grief. I'm not here to improve or take away from them. I know those...

Caring for a partner with metastatic breast cancer affects everyone differently. You will change if you're called upon to be a caregiver, whether that call is silent or not. You...

If you're like me, you never planned to be a caregiver. You probably never went to medical school, and when asked as a child what you wanted to be when...

Through the many years I served as a cancer caregiver for my parents and, finally, my wife, I've learned a great deal about life, death, and the aftermath of cancer...

Advanced breast cancer brings minimal blessings, but I found them when I searched for them. I'm speaking for myself here; your experience will differ because cancer and its care have...

You mean well and genuinely feel sympathy for your friend who cares for someone with advanced breast cancer. We know you mean well, and we also understand that you know...

I can only speak for myself, of course; what I write here won't resonate with everyone. Whenever I begin an article, I wonder if anyone will relate to it. Eventually...

I hear the car doors close out in the driveway and on the street. It's finally quiet in the house, except for the acoustic guitar music playing from the stereo...

I know you probably mean well. That your desire is to introduce me to a different way of looking at advanced breast cancer. But if you've never been through diagnosis...

Most caregivers, myself included, focus on how our experience affects us emotionally. I'm going to step aside for this article and speak with you about the physical demands of caregiving...

As a caregiver, it's all too easy to neglect ourselves. Our life changes radically when our spouse or other relative receives a cancer diagnosis, especially if we provide the only...

I've always been of an artistic temperament. Besides being a musician and writer, I've also set my hands to sculpting, painting, sketching, and other creative outlets. Growing up and accepting...

If there's anything my late wife, Lynette, loved, it was the winter holidays. She had a real flair for decorating, baking, cooking, and hosting, and I loved watching her as...