I am thrilled to be gaining subscribers to my FREE blog here and on Substack while I spit out new episodes of The Focused Fight every day...

The Focused Fight's Ch. 32 - Heartfelt Reflections from Bill and Olivia are amazing. They give their voice to what and how they felt...

Well, well, well. Our 11 years of LIVING STRONG came to a screeching halt in the spring of 2016 when a "canker sore" in Ryan's mouth was...

The fight to finish and edit all the audio episodes is "almost" done. It's been a huge learning curve for me to re-enter the software...

"To travel is to live." — Hans Christian Anderson. We couldn't be happier and thankful to bust out of Georgetown University Hospital...

Three chapters/episodes will be released today to keep up with  The Focused Fight  and the episode minutes. Since there are multiple ways...

Ahh, the intricacies of apartment life in Durham, North Carolina. We had some interesting times with moving mid-transplant, an...

The audiobook (episodes) continues with The Focused Fight's Chapter 23 —The Transplant.  While reading this Chapter, I was immediately...

The audio/episode for today is Ch. 22 —Olympic Nerves of Steel . Remember, you can always listen for free when you click the pink link...

If you have stayed with me here for the past 19 days, can you hear me cheering you on and screaming, "THANK YOU?" Well, that is what I am...

Nothing was easy during the summer of 2004 because Ryan's leukemia was out of control and wreaking havoc inside his body. Chapter 10 —...

Our lives were so unpredictable then that when Ryan's second relapse came into play, it was one more thing we had to take head-on. I...

Yes, we missed a lot from Ryan's first and second cancer diagnoses, but we also gained so much. When Ryan's counts crept up and over 1000...

It didn't take us long as a family to advocate for Ryan and Olivia and all our needs during the first and second protocols. We didn't...

While checking and double-checking Chapter 14—Relapse—September 2000 , I cried. Those feelings are close and can bubble up within...