How To Live With Knowing – And Not Knowing – The Future

Posted June 29th, 2017

For a second time, I’m reading When Breath Becomes Air by surgeon and author Paul Kalanithi. At age 36 and on a career path that was spiraling upward, Dr. Kalanithi was rudely interrupted. By a lung cancer diagnosis. I had originally highlighted several passages in the book, but one that stood out the second time around […]

Celebrating a Life Well-Lived: Random Thoughts

Posted April 11th, 2017

Family and friends gathered in Idaho this weekend to celebrate a life well lived: Mom-in-law Ivalene, who died of complications due to pancreatic cancer. Since the Celebration of Life service, a few random thoughts have been swirling in my brain: Random thought #1 — about people There were the usual suspects at mom-in-law’s service — you know, […]