My Cancer With The Circle Complete, We Begin Anew by Laurie Singer January 30, 2009 • It's a bittersweet day. "My Cancer" is turning a corner and will morph into "Our Cancer" next week. We've had quite a ride, haven't we?
My Cancer A New Home by Eyder Peralta January 30, 2009 • As you have read, My Cancer will now be Our Cancer. Starting Monday, you'll find a link to the new site in the Essential section of NPR.org, the same place the link to My Cancer has been.
My Cancer A Big Job To Do by Laurie Singer January 29, 2009 • A "lengthening tally of losses." That's how Maureen put it into words in her comments to the blog yesterday. She was reacting to the news of Randy's death. His name has been added to the others who have passed through our community. Some stayed wi...
My Cancer Hoping Randy's Found Peace by Laurie Singer January 28, 2009 • We've lost Randy. His niece broke the news
My Cancer Our Cancer is About Us by Andy Carvin January 27, 2009 • The new Our Cancer community has been live for less than 24 hours and I'm happy to report that people are beginning to use it. As of this morning, around 50 of you have joined the group, and a number of you have
My Cancer The Big Step Of Hospice by Laurie Singer January 27, 2009 • A year ago today I was sitting at home, waiting for a knock at the door. It would change my life again. It would change Leroy's life again, too. It was the day we would meet the hospice nurse. An introduction to our future.
My Cancer Winter Is What You Make It by Laurie Singer January 26, 2009 • It's been a weekend of bright blue beautiful days. Very cold but spectacular days. Walking on the C & O canal, I look up into a sky that is so clear. No clouds. Just the bare branches of the trees in their deep winter sleep, reaching up to the...
My Cancer A Season Of Loss by Laurie Singer January 23, 2009 • It seems like so many of us connected to yesterday's blog. Could it be the gray of winter? Everything is so drab. It's cold.
My Cancer Missing That Familiar Presence by Laurie Singer January 22, 2009 • It's the simplest things that remind me every day just how much I miss Leroy. The chatter in our house over the Inaugural events of the past few days would have been non-stop. Recapping the coverage, sharing experiences. It's just what we did as j...
My Cancer A New Beginning by Laurie Singer January 21, 2009 • It was a sunrise made to order over Washington, D.C. An awakening in a sky that was flecked with pinks and golds and wisps of cloud backlit by the rising sun. And it only got brighter as the early morning hours ticked away on Inauguration Day.
My Cancer Another One For The Beast by Laurie Singer January 20, 2009 • Sitting in a church this weekend, saying good-bye to a friend. Mary lived so much of her life at NBC NEWS. She always seemed to be on the job. That was two years and a day before cancer took her away from a loving daughter and other family, not to...
My Cancer Who Could Play Leroy? by Laurie Singer January 16, 2009 • What if Leroy were a movie? I mean his story, of course. We'd all need a lot of Kleenex. It would be a tearjerker.
My Cancer Our Cancer: Doing A Little Growing by Laurie Singer January 15, 2009 • "Life is change. Growth is optional."
My Cancer My 'Dumbo's Feather' by Laurie Singer January 14, 2009 • Tomorrow will be five months since Leroy's death. And you're still lifting while I struggle through the pain and loss and the emptiness of missing him.
My Cancer Back At Work, Leroy Is All Around Me by Laurie Singer January 13, 2009 • Life has changed again. I went back to work. I mean, I actually drove to the office and sat down at my desk.
My Cancer Finding A Cure With Sacrifices by Laurie Singer January 12, 2009 • I was at Hopkins last Friday. It was a business trip, but there I was, tripping over hundreds of images of visits with Leroy. There was just no way to escape it. It was our life for such a long time.
My Cancer A Trip Back To Hopkins by Laurie Singer January 9, 2009 • I've filled up the gas tank to make the trip up I-95 today. It's been a while, but those instincts are sure to kick in once I get on the road. I'll look over to the passenger side of the car, to the empty seat where my co-pilot used to sit, sippin...
My Cancer An Exclusive Club by Laurie Singer January 8, 2009 • Our president-elect went to the White House yesterday. It was an invitation to lunch at an exclusive club he's about to enter. Only current and former U.S. Presidents attending. Barrack Obama collected advice, good counsel, and fellowship, he said...
My Cancer Cancer World Resolutions by Laurie Singer January 7, 2009 • There's one more piece of holiday business to deal with now. I'm not talking about returning sweaters and shirts that don't fit, or the dismantling of the Christmas tree.This is the season of resolutions.
My Cancer Getting Through It With Help by Laurie Singer January 6, 2009 • She's "worn to the bone." Her "head is spinning." She says she "doesn't want to lose John, but yet sometimes, I can't wait for it to be over." That's how Sasha agonized over her situation yesterday.
My Cancer A Reminder That Keeps Me Connected by Laurie Singer January 5, 2009 • I'm constantly looking for "connections" to Leroy. I haven't lost it. I'm not expecting to find notes on a foggy mirror.