‘We have to get Jodi to give us her beach house. I have to get to the ocean.’ are Trish’s first words after finding out her cancer has spread internally. It’s not what I expected her to say at…
Final Cancer Week 8: Cool Philosophers, Hot Tempers and the Paradox of Life
Trish and I crossed our 14th anniversary on May 9th. One of the tragic facts about marriage is that as the years go on, you get better and better at being cruel to each other. Newlyweds fighting? Pfft, that’s just…
Final Cancer Week 5: Down the black hole
“How in hell does Bethesda support so many mediocre restaurants?” I think as I cross Montgomery Avenue on a sunny day. It’s like a tourist trap, but the locals are the tourists! A Twilight Zone episode. I’ve got the day…
Final Cancer Week 1: Trish, Cockroaches and Keith Richards
Over my shoulder the sun is breaking up the clouds above the Arenal Volcano. It’s day nine of our (nearly) two-week trip to Costa Rica, It’s been a blast. Hummingbirds are so close you can hear their wings beating. The…
Final Cancer Week 2 Diagnosis and Treatment for Trish’s 3rd fight with breast cancer
Trish discovered the newest lump in early March as we were doing our presentation at SXSW in Austin Texas. Sadly, and ironically, that presentation was on crowdsourcing cancer support and drew heavily on our last experience with cancer in 2010.…