The Man Up to Cancer community is mourning the loss of two wolves this week. We talk regularly about walking each other home, but I…
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Michael Holtz
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There’s a well-worn cliché, and lots of old-time comedy bits, that men and their mothers-in-law don’t get along. I never experienced that cliché myself. My…
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I finally pulled the trigger on something I’ve been thinking about and working toward for more than a year. I resigned my volunteer leadership role…
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I’ve written before about one of my favorite sacred places, the grounds of the Wind Point Lighthouse in Racine, Wisconsin, my hometown. I’ve had the…
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The last few days have been a whirlwind of meetings, conversations, receptions and manning a booth at the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2024 annual…
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My maternal grandmother, Dorothy, warned us early and often: ”Don’t get old.” She died at age 83, which seems like an alarmingly short life when…
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The precarity of life — the topic I write about most often these days — made itself known again this weekend. Precarity, to me, is…
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Fighting Back Giving Back GratitudeFive percent is everything: Reflections on 12 years of survivorship
March 27, 2024, marks 12 years since I was diagnosed with what turned out to be stageIIIB rectal cancer. 4,383 days. Bonus time. Time that,…
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My heart is full of joy after eight beautiful days on the road. I spent four days in Tucson, Arizona, for the Cologuard Classic, a…
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The lovely Sarah and I are flying to Tucson on Tuesday, March 5, for the Cologuard Classic, the PGA golf tournament presented by Exact Sciences.…