This is a blog by a wife, mother, physician, seminarian, consummate journaler and deep-thinker, that turned into a cancer blog (that may one day turn back into a regular blog). To learn more and see suggestions for where to start, click on the “about” link to the left. Welcome!
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If you’re not sure where to start, here are some suggestions:
To read about my experience with breast cancer, you can start here at the beginning, or explore topics like facing loss, learning to wait, starting to savor, and beginning chemotherapy.
To get a sense for general posts, you’re welcome to explore topics like how to have a spiritual retreat, parenting for success, adjusting to the teenage years, defining heaven, handling post-preaching blues, or living in suspension.
The name “estherinink” originated from ink drawings I used to post; some are archived in the menu but you can find more recent works here.
Esther is a part-time ophthalmologist and seminary student and full-time wife and mother to four kids ages 9-15. After a lifetime of growing up and training along the East Coast, she moved with her family to the Bay Area, California, where she currently resides with a dog, cat, and many plants.
Esther writes because it has always been a way for her to process what she is feeling and thinking about through the course of everyday life and whatever she may be reading. Her most recent blog before this one was a series of daily devotionals that went through the Bible in one year, and can be found here. This blog started as a way for her to continue writing, and after she was diagnosed with cancer has become a way for her to keep friends and family posted on medical developments as she continues to process what each day brings.