I don’t think people understand how unlikely it is that I’m still here. Every July I become reflective. Diagnosis day. Diagnosis week. Diagnosis month. Another year alive. When people hear “brain cancer survivor,” they assume my story goes something like this: I had cancer. I had treatment. It worked. Now I go back every few…

For most of my life, I lived like a lot of people do. Someday I’d lose the weight. Someday I’d take the trip. Someday I’d become the person I wanted to be. Then on July 20, 2020, someday disappeared. I was told I had a brain tumor. In an instant, all those things I’d been…

Night at the Improv May 2022 Improv, Boston, May 2022, I was chosen after sharing that I was celebrating being NED, no evidence of disease, at my one-year checkup. A Piece of Our Story This short interview was filmed early in our journey. It’s not the whole story, but it’s part of it — and…

That Didn’t Go as Planned. Three of my ten grandkids have been dying to go tubing.So Pop got the boat ready, we loaded everything up, and off to the lake we went. The first attempt was a complete bust. We got the boat in the water, and it wouldn’t stay running. After a lot of…

I almost paid someone $400 to help me start. Then one conversation with AI changed everything—not because it had all the answers, but because it helped me find a way forward. This is where the story begins.