The Necklace of Occasional Dreams A Woman's Journal of Living With Her Husband's Cancer

Kathleen Winter began writing the notebooks from which these passages have been taken in the summer of 1992, shortly after her husband's diagnosis. She continued writing them until his death two years later. For Kathleen, the notebooks became a place to name the elements that hurt her relationships with her husband and their daughter, and to regain the perspective of solitude in a ravaged landscape. The notebooks became a place of both lamentation and healing. This volume is Kathleen's selection from the entire two-year journal. It includes journal entries written by her husband James during his final Christmas at home, and in his last days. And there is a poem by their daughter Esther.