Ageing with attitude: How a breast cancer diagnosis turned a journalling hobby into a lifeline

Anne Alcock has been journalling since the age of 12, but having been diagnosed with breast cancer, the hobby became a lifeline, writes Margaret Jennings

How do you go through all the “stuff” that life throws up for you? Do you talk? Do you walk? Do you draw? Do you pray? Do you look for a book? Do you journal?

When 71-year-old Anne Alcock was diagnosed with breast cancer, she engaged with all of those things, but it was the journalling, which she has been doing since the age of 12, that has led to her new book, Cancer, A Circle of Seasons: A Way to journal and pray through life’s challenges.