Creative Corner Archives

October 26, 2022

Self-Care through The Power of Distraction

In 2020, Craig Colley was looking forward to a less demanding professional schedule. He and wife Karyn relocated to Mammoth, CA for the summer to enjoy an outdoor lifestyle. Biking, hiking, and paddleboarding were daily priorities.

January 17, 2022

WHO’S KIDDING WHO?

A poem by TEM

June 11, 2021

How I See It

By True Ryndes, ANP ret., MPH Patient During the decades I worked in hospice and palliative care, my husband Jim and I simultaneously lost a landscape of friends and acquaintances to AIDS. During this uncommon exposure to grief and loss I would, every so often, repaint rooms in our

March 17, 2021

The Patient

“The Patient” originally appeared in Another Dysfunctional Cancer Poem Anthology

June 18, 2020

In Absentia and Let’s Pretend – 2 Poems

In Absentia and Let’s Pretend – 2 Poems by Kim Goldberg

December 12, 2019

Cajun Gingerbread

A delicious gingerbread recipe for the season!

September 16, 2019

Waterfalls of Grace

by Mary B. McAllister – Patient Waterfalls of Grace My glass has always been half-full— A clear and inborn vision. It isn’t something I have earned, But a blessing I’ve been given. Being raised in faith and prayer Instills a higher view. For knowing God, is trusting Life, In

March 19, 2019

CLL Set Me Free

painted by Christina Fisher – Patient During my recent stay at OHSU, I was encouraged to participate in the patient art program. I painted “CLL Set Me Free” because it’s always in our heads, it’s such a deeply personal and individual journey for all of us who typically appear

June 28, 2018

Watch and Wait

By Valerie Vickers – Patient Life in Limbo Lethargy finds expression in a yawn No words or symbols–this heaviness swallows all that is colorful The world in light and dark before diagnosis and after No treatment for dormancy The shadow spirals outward in gray arcs leaves flashes of awareness

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Creative Corner

Self-Care through The Power of Distraction

WHO’S KIDDING WHO?

How I See It

The Patient

In Absentia and Let’s Pretend – 2 Poems

Cajun Gingerbread

Waterfalls of Grace

CLL Set Me Free

Watch and Wait

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