Raising Awareness (and Funds) For Our “Ordinary Angels”
Sean MurphyFirst, an update. The numbers are in, and I achieved my goal of raising (at least) $1,000 for The Lombardi/Ruesch Center (more about them HERE). My first two events brought…
Creativity vs. Cancer
Humanity, creativity and compassion in the face of suffering: that's where I find my faith. More on this story, HERE. It reminds me of THIS and THIS and THIS (more, below): I’m trying to…
Sui generis on the rocks: Christopher Hitchens, R.I.P.
The best way to compliment a writer, as a reader, is to recommend their work to others. That I wholeheartedly do --and have done. The best way to compliment a…
Machinery*
2002 During the summer of 2002 if the phone rang while I was getting ready for work, that meant my mother was calling. If the phone rang while I was…
Machinery*
2001 The sights and smells, never welcome, quickly become recurring, then established. Once you’ve patrolled the hallways of a recovery ward, or helped your mother to and from the bathroom…
Machinery*
2000 The hardcore chemotherapy commenced just as the sweltering summer of 2000 settled into its sustained, apathetic groove. Our family took turns getting my mother to her appointments, and while…
Machinery*
1997 When you are young or healthy enough to not know better, or need to know any differently, you won’t spend a great deal of time pondering the ways our…
A History of Violence*
I. Fighting doesn’t solve anything. Everyone knows that. But then, the point of fighting is not usually to solve anything, it’s to settle something. There is a significant discrepancy between…
This Family’s Story: The Beginning of the End*
I didn't need a doctor to tell me that it was over. On the way to no longer being, a person suffering from a terminal disease, like cancer, ceases to…
The Big C Claims A Cop And A Coach
You have to hand it to Cancer. It does not discriminate: all it requires is a living body to inhabit and attack. That's it. Certainly, if you are impoverished or…