The Disease Identity
[Before I start on today’s blog, I want to give a warning about the documentary May I Be Frank which I wrote on previously. It is very inspiring but I failed to mention it (Read More)
Category: Thoughts
On Stepping Out
I’m discovering I have more readers than I thought. I’m told there might even be a man with leukemia reading this from Spain. I don’t know that I’m really qualified to write this particular (Read More)
How do you feel?
Family and friends often ask me the question, “how do you feel?” It’s the same question I ask people who have health issues. And I get the same response I give: “I’m fine.” The (Read More)
Family
Last Saturday some of our extended family got together at my daughter’s house. We’ve had family parties before but there was something a little different about this one. Maybe it was the size; it (Read More)
A father and son sailing trip
Recently my son and I took a 4 day sailing trip in Puget Sound (Washington State). That’s him in the photo. Sucia Island: The first day we sailed from Blaine, Washington to Sucia. It (Read More)
Finding a balance
Today I’ve decided to pace myself a bit. The rest of the family are going to Legoland. It will be a 2 hour ride on the bus to get there, a full day at (Read More)
Push through it
Today I’ll be running errands, unclogging a drain, processing photos for a client, sending off invoices, doing some banking, and attempting to fix an outboard motor. (see “On the High Seas – Part II“). (Read More)
Fight the good fight
One of my goals for this blog is to show people with CLL that they can have a somewhat normal life (see my About page). Since ‘normal’ is a relative and hard to define term, (Read More)
An old friend passes
I just heard that a childhood friend, Shelly, passed away. She had cancer. I’m not sure which kind. I haven’t seen Shelly since we were kids; her daughter wrote me with the news. I (Read More)
The flip side
As some of you may know, my views on the existence of God are somewhat nebulous. I can get a bit negative, especially when I struggle with tragedy (see my “Kay” post). But there (Read More)
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