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...

"Where do I even start?" Scrawled in thick black marker on white poster board, those words really caught my eye amid thousands of signs...

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

No words in literature have ever resonated more profoundly with me than the advice Atticus Finch gave his daughter, Scout, in To Kill a...

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...

I did it, folks. Climbed to the tippy top of the Space Needle this morning. My time: 10:22. Total donations from the generous souls who...

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...

Man, oh man, the last couple weeks of radiation sure tested my resilience. That not-so-bad light pink radiation burn from the first 20...

Time sure flies when you're having fun — and when you're going through radiation therapy, which is not at all fun, but also not all that...

I'm short on time these days, folks. So here's a haiku that sums up the good, the bad, and the is-what-it-is: Radiation's fine. ...

"When you're ready, take a deep breath ... and hold it." I heard those instructions over a loud speaker during my first of 30 radiation...

My, oh, my ... December sure was a blur. I came close to posting a quick update or three these past couple weeks. Instead, I took naps....

You know that mild fever I was fighting off late last week? Well, it landed me in urgent care Friday night. Blood tests and a chest X-ray...

I could barely believe my misty eyes two Sundays ago as Sean crossed the Seattle Marathon finish line WAY faster than he'd ever run 26.2...

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,...