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...

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...

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...

Working with multiple platforms in the last couple of weeks to get my audiobook out to the world has given me pause (and thankful, no...

For many who read my blog (and I Thank You!), you know how much the organization Special Love, Inc. means to all of us. We found our...

When the planes crashed into the Twin Towers in NYC and the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on 9/11/2001, I received a call from one of...

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....