That’s right! The title of this post is no joke. I can’t stress enough how a simple box/tray/bag of chocolate chip cookies can #helpothers! Brownies work too! If you want to help others going through a difficult time, baking or buying cookies could be the way to go. If the family, or child, cannot eat them, they can take the cookies to the hospital and share them with the nurses or resident doctors, or other staff. Believe me, they will get eaten in about 5 minutes flat. (The

Today was one of those wonderfully full days—time spent visiting with my college friends, catching up, laughing, and enjoying being together. Summer is still going strong here in South Haven, Michigan, and I’m glad to be part of the BGGGW (Bowling Green Girls Gone Wild) week. And suddenly…it’s late! (We walked, went to the local Farmer’s Market, beach, lunch at a teammates house, and dinner at our Airbnb rental, talking, and lots of laughing). But I made a promise to myself t

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Heat Dziczek's cancer.cards are genius in learning how to say you care, or ask hard questions to cancer patients and their family...

When Sue Inches and I were in a 4-hour block of writing a couple of weeks back, she asked me what I was working on, and vice versa. We...

Oh, what a week in speaking, socializing, and volunteering for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Today, the family kept our promise of...

It really is something when people take an interest in your family, especially during a bonafide crisis. Linda Misencik, now living in...

When you meet up with a kindred spirit, whether online, via Zoom, or in person, sparks of connection fly. That's what happened to me and...

Speaker, writer, collector of stories. Always curious. Occasionally hilarious, Heat Dzizcek is the CEO at Cancer Conversation SOS - and...

We are on location in Crofton, Maryland, on the Crofton Parkway, where Bill and I typically walk 4 miles a day when we can. We've been...

My video below explains how childhood cancer awareness is now represented by wearing a gold ribbon, a tradition that began in 1997. The...

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Today, I want to pause and share something I’m deeply thankful for: quilting and the people I've sewn and quilted with over the past 25...

My friend, Heat (also known as Heather) Dziczek, is on fire with her CancerCards . I think her work on what not to say to people with...