Trying to Understand
Exploring and learning about life

Today is the one year anniversary of being diagnosed with cancer, my cancerversary. I guess I should be grateful that I am having a one...

What do you do when you find out your life will be shorter than you hoped? How do you keep going? You keep going because everyday is a...

Usually when I sit down to write I have already prewritten most of what I plan to say in my head for a couple of days of thinking about...

This was supposed to be a post about clinical trials and the value of being a lab rat. The last couple weeks have not gone as planned and...

These are lines from news articles of people who have died with a cancer diagnosis: “Olivia Newton John lost her battle to metastatic...

Sometimes pictures tell the story better than words. These two pictures encapsulate the cancer story for me. I have been so fortunate to...

I was at my second home UCHealth - thinking about doing a change of address with the post office. This week I had not one but three...

In remission, that means this nightmare is over and I can go back to normal. Wrong. As I am learning in my own situation and others, that...

In December when I was diagnosed with cancer I really thought I would die from it. I have been carrying that around in my head all this...

I had an amazing bike ride yesterday - ten miles - a beautiful morning - short but long in coming. I felt like me for the first time in a...