An email arrived this morning confirming that my paper has been accepted for the International Symposium on Theology, Spirituality and Cancer in Auckland, New Zealand next February.  It seems that I am the the only 'international' speaker among some very diverse New Zealanders and they have asked if I know what I'm doing by agreeing to go!

I am excited and a bit apprehensive because now not only do I have to write the thing, I have to organise getting there and back, having not a scooby what that means in terms of visas and things.  But it will be an adventure, a bit of carpe diem, a bit of living a little more spontenously and less cautiously, and that has to be good.