Last weekend I was in New York City with my family. We walked in no rush to get anywhere and ate 5 meals a day and tried to stay warm. It was excellent. I had my first post-treatment checkup with my oncologist. With the exception of a still-and-maybe-forever low white blood cell count, my blood …
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Today, I picked up my new cross bike that I had ordered back in October. And promptly slammed that stem. 3000 miles is gonna be too easy. Especially if it never snows.
Resolution
I rode bike to work today. To the other office, closer to home. It was dark and below freezing and there was ice and snow and I was on my fixie with skinny tires and people gave me crazy looks when they saw my helmet sitting on my desk. Because this is the Midwest and …
Snow
It’s the first substantial snowfall of the season, not the turning of the calendar, that makes for a better new beginning. Everything is clean. A fresh slate to play on, in. Meticulously shoveled walkways, footprints and shoe treads, tire tracks. Cars on the highway drowned out by winds buffeting the windows. It’s somehow less cold …
A photo and new design
Only took me 11 months to change from the default WordPress theme. Approximately 11 months too many.
Done!
Hm. So now what? Cancer treatments have been on my mind constantly for the past 9 months, and now that I’m finished, I’m not sure where to go next. I am at the same time overcome with joy and hamstrung by a lack of direction. I had one singular goal to focus on, and now that I’ve …
GUESS WHERE THE RADIATION HITS ME
2 more days of treatment left.
Proton Therapy
Before sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner each year, my mom makes us all write down what we are thankful for. Two years ago I wrote, “Good Health”. I remember this because I was lightly chided for picking such a lame and obvious thing – like saying I’m thankful for oxygen or photosynthesis. And though I …
Drawing
I went for a run last night to the high school and on behind it and to the nature trail simply known as the Prairie Wolf Slough. It’s a little slice of nothing that starts in a nondescript back corner of a soccer practice field and winds its way along a stream, behind a few …