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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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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A new Netflix documentary about the creation of the 1985 song and video, “We Are the World,” which raised money for Ethiopia famine relief, brought…
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I recently had the opportunity to serve as a consumer reviewer to evaluate research applications submitted to the Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program (PRCRP) sponsored…
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I’ve had a big week celebrating my “second birthday.” It was a week filled with friends, cake, coffee, burgers, tattoos and more love than any…
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It was once fashionable to discuss “six degrees of separation.” The idea is, or was depending on your view, that just six people separate us…
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I’ve come to like making a big deal of a couple cancer-related anniversaries — my diagnosis date, which I call my “cancerversary,” and the last…
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Today, I’m grateful for my friends: 1. Started the day at breakfast with Zane. Hadn’t seen the guy in several weeks, so it was great…
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For several weeks at the end of last year, I’d run into people who told me they saw me on TV. As a PR guy…
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Christmas promises a much-needed spark of happiness we hope to fan into a flame that will burn into the new year. So, here we are.…