by Charity Singleton Craig | Jan 5, 2012 | Archived Blog Posts
I met Sarah Hughes and Michael Kent on New Year’s Eve, and they were the first people I spent time with the next day, in the early hours of 2012. They felt like old friends by the time I said goodbye Sunday evening, but I probably won’t hear from them...
by Charity Singleton Craig | Nov 24, 2011 | Archived Blog Posts
It’s Thanksgiving, and where I lack in gratitude the other 364 days of the year, I certainly try to make up for on this day. All morning, I have been thinking about the things I am grateful for. I am grateful for Tilly, curled up on the bed with me. She and I...
by Charity Singleton Craig | Nov 17, 2011 | Archived Blog Posts
I was laying in my bed; it was 2 a.m.; I was awake. About two hours earlier, my one-year-old black Labrador Retriever, Tilly, crawled out from under the covers where she was sleeping with me, and vomited right on top of the quilt. I was initially disgusted, then I was...
by Charity Singleton Craig | Nov 11, 2011 | Archived Blog Posts
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...
by Charity Singleton Craig | Oct 13, 2011 | Archived Blog Posts
One of these days, I’d like to climb up on the radiation table and lay down in the right position all on my own. But from the moment I lay my head back on the hard rubber cradle, the lights dim, the green laser beams illuminate, and the radiation technicians...