There and Back Again: Litany
The very night I finished radiation, I joined a gym. It was on my list, right before, “Get Pizza for Dinner.” When I mentioned the pizza to the guy who was registering my gym membership, he said lots of people do that. Go hog wild the night they join a...
50/50: A Survivor’s Review
Ordinarily when I sit in a movie theater with tears streaming down my face and a lump building in my throat, I feel a little silly. After all, the guy ALWAYS gets the girl, and the wounded animal ALWAYS comes back to win the race or save the day or make the winning...
Being the Good News
This past Saturday, my mom and I walked for the seventh time in one of many of the American Cancer Society’s Relays for Life. The first few years, I walked because I wanted to support my mom’s effort to help raise money to defeat cancer and because I had...
Regeneration: How I Got Back My Super Powers
On Saturday, I woke up late because I didn’t set an alarm. And though I had a lot to do, I decided to just sit in the recliner and finish a book I had been reading. In the end, one of the main characters died in a tsunami. I didn’t cry.It was the end of a...
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