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This morning, I learned that "Quarantine", a term with which we are all becoming familiar, is a shipping term. The word has a root meaning "forty" and refers...

It has been so long since I wrote on this blog, I don't remember the "me" who wrote last time. But I do know that I haven't had a way to write words here, be...

I am surprised to find the beginning chill of Fall to be comforting. My diagnosis became clear a year ago, as August turned to September, at the beginning o...

After a sluggish morning, ruminating on all the scary things that could be, and feeling all manner of weirdness in this body, I decided I wanted to outsmart ...

I want to be seen today. Up until now, I have kept my bald head covered, because of the cold, but also because it seemed to say, "cancer". That was when I w...

I haven't known what to write, and hence have left many questions for my friends and support to guess about. I have been inarticulating (see other parts of ...

I remember when Hannah and Lara were young, we often went to the folks festival in Lyons Colorado. We would cool off in the St Vrain river, where we would se...

For three months, I have not had the pleasure of eating food. I have been fed by a feeding tube. I have been able to drink liquids, but no food ( no BLTs, ...

I've gotten a few requests this week for an update. It's nice to feel your caring in that request.... a reminder that I am connected in more ways than I usua...

Two weeks ago, this was a stick, a dry branch; brittle, seemingly empty of life after a winter that stripped its essence from view, sent its life into a retr...

I've found great comfort in the power of Spring. You just cant argue with it! Stepping outside to find these amazing flowers which, by the way, are known f...

A series of events this month, including surgery for a bowel blockage and another hospital stay a week later, revealing that my body is creating too much sca...

When George and I were in Marblehead, Massachusetts, getting a second opinion on my diagnosis, we walked along a beach strewn with black rocks that had washe...

Thanks for your patience as many of you have been hoping for updates. Here's the scoop: After surgery, things were progressing very well. My first followup v...

Thankyou to all of you who have been patiently waiting for news. I am now home after what the surgeon felt was a very successful surgery. Family (George, Ha...

Surgery will be early tuesday morning at Anschutz Medical Campus. George and the girls will be with me. I chose this photo for this message because it is br...

We're back in Colorado! Address for mail is C/O Connie Shaw 3505 23rd street, Boulder, 80304. It feels good to be back in our home state, even if we aren't i...

Hitting the road tomorrow to head back to Boulder. The Oncologist we wanted will see us on the 24th, perhaps sooner if something opens up, and then surgery s...