How Can I Help? 💛🎗️ It’s a question people often ask me/us when we were in crisis mode; others in the same boat as me got the same question too: “What can I do?” After years of childhood cancer treatments with Ryan, I included a list of “Helpful Hints” in The Focused Fight. I didn't find these ideas on the internet. They came from living it and figuring out what worked best when that question came up. My hope is that, with a few simple hints, readers here can help others, t

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 Focused Fight's Chapter 10 is Getting Through the First Protocol . Nothing easy about those days, but we had a plan and went with it....

In 2018, I had the opportunity to travel to Ethiopia with my son Ryan's doctor, Aziza Shad, and The Aslan's Project Executive Director,...

My heart and mind go to all children and families battling the good fight of a childhood cancer diagnosis. Nothing is easy about it, but...

I plan to return to a few Maui stories with the turtles and the local quilt shop still collecting quilts for the survivors. But not for...

I know I’m ‘late to the party’ in reading Krista Tippett’s book, Speaking of Faith. She wrote her excellent book in 2007, but the...

It's been a different month for me to celebrate Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, nothing as I've done the last two years, but it is what...

Aloha! The trip to Hawaii all began on the last day of CCAM last year, September 30, 2022, when the family attended the Special Love,...

The following video I couldn't help doing, even on vacation, because I care so deeply about all the kids fighting courageous battles of...

I hope the world is moving toward the pre-Covid days with in-person meet-ups (it is happening, I know), as Special Love is gearing up for...

A few months ago, we were alerted that our favorite Art Therapist, Tracy Councill, was stepping down from her post at Georgetown (MedStar...

It’s never too early for a Christmas Party! Heck, don’t the big box or mall stores have “Christmas in July sales?” Kind of a party,...

Have you ever heard of No-Shave November? It’s a thing. No—Shave November is a month-Iong journey during which participants forgo shaving...

*Last Friday, I posted about Tracy Council and Tracy's Kids Art Therapy program. Today I felt that I needed to give it closure with the...