Today is not a good day for me. Or for my husband. Or for some of our friends back in Ohio. Today is the funeral of one of my husband’s best friends. I met Joe the same night that I met my husband. He, Joe, another male friend of theirs named Mike, Joe’s then girlfriend, and her sister were all… Read more »
These are some very troubling times here in the United States. The events of this past weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia have shaken my belief in a world that could move past tribalism and hatred and whatever fuels grown men to ram cars into crowds of people. How are we still at the point that we deny the humanness of every… Read more »
In a recent news story out of Tampa, a widow describes how she lost her husband to amelanotic melanoma. Spreading from a lesion on his calf into the lymph system, the cancer ended up claiming the man’s life after a 3-year battle against the disease. He had a lump in his groin that signified the spread of the cancer and… Read more »
I just came across a heart-breaking story of a young English newlywed who thought she had beaten melanoma, only to find out that what she thought was a pulled muscle was actually her cancer returned – and spreading. I’ll be honest, this type of story always makes me a bit nervous. Yes, I know that once you catch and remove… Read more »
By now, the horrific details of the attack on Paris are all over the news, even in self-absorbed United States. I was working yesterday afternoon when the first reports started coming through and throughout the evening, the news grew worse and worse. This isn’t a post on skin cancer. This is a post on the cancer that seems to ravage… Read more »
If you were given a second chance at something, what would you do with that opportunity? Would you be grateful and seize the moment to make things right in your world? Would you appreciate how lucky you were? Or would you pretend that it wasn’t a miracle and squander it? I’m thinking a lot about second chances today. Late last… Read more »
For those of you that aren’t aware, I live in Austin, Texas. For years, we’ve been in the grip of an extreme drought. Changing climate conditions the past few weeks has brought a deluge of rain our way. Rain that was welcomed at first, but now we’ve experienced more rain in the past month that we got the entire first… Read more »
This past weekend, a woman I was Facebook friends with passed away. And for whatever reason, I took it harder than I expected. I mean, I knew her mostly through electronic means. We met in person only once, but the steady stream of posts, images of her family, and her sharing of her illness made me feel closer to her… Read more »