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thank you, thank you, thank you for all of the love and support

(the image on the left is from our motorcycle trip out west last summer, that was the first place we stopped for lunch…)

A Very Happy New Year

December 31, 2017 By

I am at my wife’s childhood home in Minnesota watching the sun drop slowly behind the bare trees for the last time in 2017.  As I reflect on the year during this rare moment of quiet (one daughter is napping, the other playing with her grandmother) I am overwhelmed again with gratitude.  I think of […]

The Nutcrackers Ride Again

February 4, 2017 By

It has been almost a year since I posted here and a wonderful year it has been.  I remain free of any evidence of disease and a few months ago graduated from getting tested every 3 months to every 6 months which feels great.  I had the privilege of doing a few readings from BLOOM […]

Someone Told Me It’s All Happening At The (terato)Zoo(spermia)

March 3, 2016 By

All clear again two weeks ago for my quarterly tests!  Despite being in a relative safe zone,  my sense of relief and comfort always deepens when I get the news and my gratitude and joy ratchets up. As I sat in the waiting room at MSK a young man huddled with his parents after receiving […]

Gratitude with a Side of Turkey

November 29, 2015 By

I went to Sloan Kettering two weeks ago for my quarterly testing and got the all clear!  Now that I am about 2 years away from my last round of chemo my oncologist says my chance of recurrence is now less than 2% which sounds pretty low to me and, just as important, I feel great. […]

A Book, a Bike Ride and a Party

March 3, 2015 By

Hey all! Wanted to let you know about a few things. First of all I am feeling great, enjoying (and trying to figure out) fatherhood and re-assimilating into the world. All of my monthly tests have been clean and I just graduated to bi-monthly testing which is an exciting milestone to pass! I published a […]