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‘CANCER LOVE’ FROM DAN PATRICK ON TARGET?

Cancer love came the day after Dan Patrick explained his chemo brain and fielded calls from the sports world. One famous caller got this from Dan: “Yeah, I remember a few years back when you got all of the cancer love. I wanted some of that.” If it isn’t a perfect quote, call it a […]

MEMOIR REMINDER: ALL ABOUT YOU BUT STARTS WITH ME

My story, your story, one story What’s a memoir reminder? Just that the book called a memoir isn’t a biography, auto-biography, or a novel. None of that, not for a memoir. It’s all about keeping time and not flying all over the place in a random, scattershot, manner. An example of where it starts and […]

THERE’S CANCER STORIES, THEN THERE’S CANCER STORIES

This is one of the more engaging cancer stories. In my research of cancer stories for my memoir, I’ve read a few. This is a great cancer story from the New Yorker. Thanks to facebook friend Pam Parker for the link. It’s about the individual who doesn’t fit the system just right. It’s about the […]

CANCER RECOVERY: ONE MAIN KEY

I’ve got a serious cancer recovery question in the vein of what came first, the chicken or the egg, after reading this. Maybe this isn’t the right place to ask, but come on blogosphere. The BBC reports, “HPV vaccine linked to ‘dramatic’ drop in cervical disease.” The next research I want to see is a […]

HOW PERSONALITY AFFECTS HPV16 GYM COMMUNICATION

I heard a story about a man from a good communication source: My kid told me an older man at my gym with an outgoing personality told him he had the same thing I had, meaning hpv16 neck cancer, throat cancer, tongue cancer, he wasn’t specific but it was cancer in the body part between […]

MUSCLE UP: LIFTING WEIGHTS AND WASHING UP FOR DISEASE PREVENTION

Lifting weights and building muscle in the right gym is disease prevention, as long as you wash your hands regularly and don’t touch your face. Common knowledge, right, don’t touch your eyes or mouth after handling weights in a public gym. But how bad can it really be? Well, remember all of the reminders in […]

HEALTH BLOGGER ADDS WEIGHT

Weight loss isn’t a fad. It’s either a mystery that needs solving, or a goal. If loosing weight is a goal, do you know what to do? From so many ads, neither does anyone else. On the other hand, if you’re losing weight and don’t know why, get it checked. Health bloggers, writers, whatever you […]

PREDICTING FUTURE HEALTH CONCERNS

I don’t always post about health, but when I do it’s life or death, not a sniffle. Read on.

TONY ROMO WRITNG COACH

    Tony Romo is getting great press as an NFL color commentator. His MVP showing in the AFC title game earned him the sort of career extension anyone would hope for. And he’s a second year guy in the booth. What if Tony Romo was a writing coach, as good a writing coach as […]

WRITE A BOOK, THEY SAID. IT’LL BE FUN, 2

    What is the goal of writing a book? To get readers to turn the page. Such a modest goal. Should there be any other? I call it a building block, that’s what I call goals. What happens when you achieve your goals, when you have readers turning to the next page. Write another […]