A couple of weeks ago, after endless weeks of setbacks and difficulties and trials, my Pop told me this story. He said there was this farmer who hired two little boys to do some work. Their first job was to move a huge 8 foot tall mountain of manure. The first little boy dejectedly picked up a shovel and was crying as he shoveled. Classic Howard, I know. Dad had lost his l.

This was going to be a post about how much has changed since a year ago today, on the eve of entering the hospital for one month for an autologous stem cell transplant. I was planning to have people over to celebrate and watch the new. And celebrate my half-birthday, with my cats dressed up as dragons.

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Sunday, June 1, 2014. I tire of hearing so many worry about their deaths. Distressed by the passing of time. It is the way of things. We cannot wrest destiny of this one single truth. There is no avoidance of the inexorable passage of life. No matter who we are. No matter where we breathe. No matter the size of our bank account. I prefer to choose life. To take charge of living my life.

Monday, January 29, 2018. To make the wig I wore for all of 2012 and a good part of 2013. I was blown away by all of it, by all of them. My talented, beautiful friend Danya. Offered this photoshoot to me as a gift at my baby shower.

Things I do to Escape Cancer! Tuesday, 24 December 2013. Where is the Support? I look at Paint C Out and know it could become an entity of its own. Meantime our collection of paintings is getting bigger. Katy Perry signed her painting.

Thoughts on life, balance, and gardening. How Fabulous Is This Group? August 3, 2017. Met on Twitter in 2009. Took place on July 4. Who died yesterday due to metastatic breast cancer. Died in 2013, I posted some thoughts. About how incredible it was that something like Twitter could bring people to.