I’ll Eat To That
Travel diaries, food porn, random rants, and various musings about stuff that I feel like musing about.
Blog Posts
Figures of Echoes
I’ve been thinking a lot about Mary these last few weeks. Most of you know who Mary was but for the record she was my best friend for more than 20 years and she died of breast cancer in 2010. There is a lot more to her and us than just that but for the purposes of...
Tugging on Superman’s Cape
I was originally going to call today’s post “Cut it Out!,” a title with dual meanings. The first meaning refers to my patience level with this whole cancer bullshit (which has mostly involved talking about it endlessly) and my desire to just get on with the part where...
Vertical Expression of a Horizontal Desire
The above was the description of dance by either Robert Frost or George Bernard Shaw, depending on which attribution you choose to believe. It was also how Shirley MacLaine described dance at last night's Dizzy Feet Foundation benefit at the Dorothy Chandler...
Asterisk II: Revenge of the Asterisk
The short version: it’s most likely stage 1B but there is some activity in the lymph nodes near the tumor that while not specifically cancerous are enough to put an asterisk on the 1B. If you haven’t read the post about the different stages of esophageal cancer, you...
Radioactive Donuts
A donut is what I was craving after my PET scan. You see, apparently this cutting-edge test that costs thousands of dollars, involves multi-million dollar machinery, radioactive isotopes, and advanced training to administer can be thrown off by a chocolate chip...
We Now Interrupt This Program
I'm having the PET scan tomorrow at noon. Wednesday afternoon I am meeting with the oncologist who will, effectively, tell me if I'm going to live or die. I know that's overly melodramatic and the results, no matter what they are, will require a more nuanced...
Annoying Thing About Cancer #16
Waiting rooms. When you have cancer you have to go see a lot of doctors and get a lot of tests and inevitably, at whatever office or lab or hospital you are visiting, you will be forced to sit in a waiting room. And sit. And sit. And sit some more. I've only been...
‘Cuz You Got to Have Friends
I told my friend Jeff about the whole cancer thing and the part that horrified him the most was what the surgery meant for my future eating habits, or lack thereof. The idea that I would not be able to eat many of my favorite foods simply did not compute for him. In...
Things That Go Bump in the Night
About a month ago I developed a painful bump in my lower left eyelid. This is nothing new - I get styes on a distressingly frequent basis. What was new was when half of my face blew up like one of those things that flaps about outside of used car lots and I...
PETting Zoo
My PET scan has finally been scheduled for Tuesday, July 24th. What is a PET scan, you may be wondering. I knew I was. Actually I knew of PET scans from my friend Mary's long tribulations with breast cancer but my knowledge of them was limited to a vague concept of...
Deeper Dives
The Year of Living With Cancer
In 2012, I was diagnosed with Esophageal Cancer. To help myself cope with it, I wrote about it. A lot. And yes, the picture of Angela and Jordan will make sense at some point if you read enough.
The Year of Living Differently
After cancer, I decided to try to mix things up and do something different every single day for a year. Did I make it?
50 for 50 by 50
To celebrate, or perhaps to distract myself from, my impending 50th birthday in 2016, I embarked on a project to give $50 to 50 different charities by the time I turned 50.
Gun Violence
A page full of facts to help you be better informed about the issues surrounding gun violence in the United states.