by Charity Singleton Craig | Oct 11, 2016 | Blog, My Word of the Week
It’s always about this time every year that I grow wholly grateful for life in ways I wish would stick with me through the year. October is my birth month—a birth so many moons ago I begin to lose track. But October also is my death month. At least that’s the story I thought I was living nine years ago.
by Charity Singleton Craig | May 13, 2016 | Blog, My Word of the Week
For a good three weeks, I had the flu, then bronchitis, then what I call persistent bronchitis, because it refused to go away with just one antibiotic. So I was prescribed a second round of medication that lasted twice as long as …
by Guest User | Apr 14, 2016 | Blog, Writing
Recently, I’ve listened to a couple of interviews with Ryan and Amy Green, creators of the video game “That Dragon Cancer.” Their son Joel was diagnosed with terminal cancer when he was 1. The Greens began working on the game while he was still alive, hoping he might make it, and then adapted it after he didn’t.
by Charity Singleton Craig | Oct 27, 2015 | Blog, My Word of the Week
commemorate – verb | \kə-ˈme-mə-ˌrāt\ : to exist or be done in order to remind people of (an important event or person from the past) : to do something special in order to remember and honor (an important event or person from the past) I was washing dishes one...
by Charity Singleton Craig | Jun 5, 2015 | Blog, Read and Respond
I barely remember my doctor telling me that he would try to save my uterus since I was so young, still in my child-rearing years. At that point, he had seen cancer on only one ovary. I remember less the form I must have signed giving them permission to remove...