In my last post, I talked about stoic philosophy and how I’ve been trying to apply its core tenets to my daily life. But if I’m being...

I've been reading Meditations  for the last two years. Many days, I would read no more than two or three pages, uncapping my highlighter...

On May 6-7, the National Brain Tumor Society (NBTS) held its annual Head to the Hill advocacy event on Capitol Hill. This event gives...

In December my MRIs showed new cancerous cells where my tumor was located. It was a total surprise. From the point of learning about the...

Regret is harder to manage with brain cancer. I’ve made a couple larger mistakes since my diagnosis in 2019. Dealing with the fallout of...

Batman has always been my favorite superhero. The Dark Knight Trilogy films are some of my favorites. Michael Caine will always be Alfred...

About a week before Christmas we received great news with another follow-up appointment resulting in clear MRIs. On the drive home I...

I started journaling a bit this year. I decided to try it because I hoped it would help cleanup my thinking. I didn't know how to start,...

Most days I ask myself many times per hour if what I am doing matters. I can’t remember how often I thought about the usefulness of my...

I’ve thought about posting almost every day for the last 10 months. A lot happened in the last year or so, and in my mind I wrote about...

I quit drinking several years ago. To get to that point, it was a long painful road for me, the people who cared about me, and a lot of...

It has been 4 months since I posted. I got stuck on a topic that I really wanted to write about, but I just could not get the words to...

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. I learned this a couple of weeks ago from a social media post by St. Jude Children’s...

UNDERSTANDING MY PROGNOSIS When my local neurosurgeon confirmed I had a brain tumor, he wrote down three possible diagnoses based on its...

In early 2019 I was experiencing leg and back pain I assumed was related to an old injury. After the constant discomfort became distracting