The Gift of Cancer (& Other Tales)

I'll never forget the moment in late July that I found out my melanoma was back.   It seems like a lifetime ago, and yet it was only a...

I'm preparing to live Believe it or not, desiring life is just as difficult as preparing to die. Hope is painful, it takes more coura...

I’m Preparing to Die I’m preparing to die, the very process of which is preparing me to live.  Each day is precious, each moment is preg...

An update from Jamie: Truss’s appetite is back!  After eating a large bowl of soup and a huge bucket of butter clams across the Puget ...

First the good news… Thankfully there is news.   My doctor thinks it is great news, and while I suppose he is right, great news in canc...

I’m Jamie Abenroth, related to Ned through the wedding ring his slipped off his necklace and on to my finger nearly 11 years ago. Tonight ...