WRITE ON

As I headed out the door for a Mother's Day run, I breathed a grateful sigh listening to the first few lines of a StoryCorps podcast.

I'm not quite sure what's more awesome: that I've made it one full year past the end of my slog through cancer treatment. Or that this...

Dear President Obama, In this last hour of your presidency, I’m overwhelmed with so many feelings. Big emotions. Good and bad. Some...

With cancer in the rear view, it’s time to move on from CaringBridge and introduce you to my new blog. I'm calling it WRITE ON because...

When I was first diagnosed and while I was slogging through treatment, I figured I'd dread my first several post-cancer mammograms. ...

832 steps up the Space Needle. That's what I'm gonna climb on Oct. 2 in the Base2Space fundraiser for Fred Hutch. And to think that...

Many a time over the past few months, I've marveled at what a difference a year makes. Looking back, I can hardly believe how much has...

The thing that scared me most when I first learned I had cancer had nothing to do with the medical ordeal that loomed ahead. I knew I...

About a week ago, I ventured out hatless for the first time since my hair went bye-bye. Walking into the grocery store with my...

I broke into the chemo double digits yesterday. And I'm feeling fine with round 10 just a day behind me. Aside from some slightly warped,...

A week ago, when I got home from my sixth chemo treatment, Sean cheerfully declared: "You're halfway there!" Without so much as a...

I was dreading my third round of chemo. Round three hit a friend of mine harder than any other.

One week and one day after round one of chemo, I'm feeling remarkably healthy — gratefully so and with a short new 'do I'm calling my...

Chemo has a weird way of making you dread it as much as you look forward to getting it over already. Today, I shared my first day of it...

Believe it or not, here comes the start of my four-month dance with chemo. I report for duty on Thursday, August 27, with Sean and my...

Sometimes I think in book titles. The one that came to mind as I embarked on the most challenging chapter in my life: The Good Kind of a...