The Only Gifts of Cancer … or, don’t sweat the small stuff

Some of you may know I have been working — well, actually been putting off, thanks to a number of actual life happenings — on a book called “The Only Gifts of Cancer.”
How could cancer have gifts?
Truth is, it’s terrible and devastating, but there are a few gifts it can bring to your life.  I [...]

Cancer, Social Media, and the Meaning of Small Things

On a crisp September day in 1995 — long before there was such a term as “Social Media” — I sat at my computer with my 28K modem, sobbing as quietly as I could, trying not to wake up my 3 month-old son. And I typed this question:
“I need to know how [...]