Two weeks ago I felt the first flickers of a certain kind of energy that I haven’t felt in months. No. Not that kind of energy (sorry to disappoint). Energy …
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A couple of our friends have said they’re holding their breath for the post that says: “we’re coming out the other side.” This is not that post. We still have …
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It’s getting harder, folks. Mike himself would say that the first round of chemo had its share of awful moments, but overall it was easier than we’d expected. Well, the …
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Mike’s hair started to fall out last Tuesday, and the next day we went to visit a cousin with clippers and she did the close-crop honors. Now Mike has a …
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Since Mike’s testicular cancer diagnosis, I’ve learnt all sorts of new words – words like seminoma, bleomycin, etopiside, cisplatin, and nadir. Nadir. Every time I hear that I picture somewhere …
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A couple of years ago now, I read Donald Miller’s A Million Miles in a Thousand Years. Following the great success of his memoir Blue Like Jazz , Miller slumped …