Your friends are awesome. When you’re temporarily health challenged, they are even more awesome than usual. They come visit, send you cards and presents, make you cupcakes, volunteer to cat-sit, and maybe even help you raise money to cover your medical expenses. But the thing is, when you’re sick, you sort of just want to …
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My Christmas Present to You
Over the past couple of years of living with cancer, I’ve actually learned some things (I was surprised by this too) and I realized that it might be helpful to share them. I know many of my blog readers are in perfect health, but maybe you can pass these tips along to someone who isn’t. …
Napping Day
I would like to interrupt Napping Day for a very special “Thank You!” to everyone who participated in the auction! It was a huge success and we can’t thank everyone who was involved enough. We are overcome with the generosity of our friends and family and the kidlit community. You all seriously, seriously rock! I …
The Girl Who Lived
My oncologist looks a lot like a less-hairy Dumbledore. If we’re going to fight foes of darkness etc., a Dumbledore lookalike seems like a good guy to have on our Bridget Kicks Cancer team, don’t you think? A team which is currently knocking my socks off–the auction is amazing! I had all of these big …
Gems
Writers and aspiring writers, if you need a fresh look or even a first look at your work, consider the critique services offered on the auction. I know it’s difficult. So many fabulous writers, how to choose??? Don’t overlook less published writers. I don’t know all of their work, but the ones that I am …
Thanksgiving Curry and Pie
Barrett is downstairs making the last of the feast we have planned. Indian food, mashed potatoes and pie are on the menu for Piesgiving this year. Last year we tried eating everything in pie form, but since Barrett and Matt took Indian cooking classes we decided to mix it up. As much as I love …
The Auction is Up!!!
There are SO many completely awesome things in the auction. You must check it out! I’m once again overwhelmed by how generous and wonderful people are. It makes me want to be a good person someday. It sounds like there are a few links out there with issues so I’m putting the shortcut link here: …
No Laughing, Are You Kidding Me???
He was not. Kidding me in the least, that is. When I was last at CTCA my surgeon told me with a perfectly straight face (after having just spent the last half-hour applying tourniquet-like pressure to my wound after having removed the rod shoved up my hepatic artery half-way through Start-Pre-Treatment-At-4:30am-Then-Insert-Painful-Device-And-Chemotherapies-And-Make-Bridget-Lie-Flat-On-Her-Back-For-Fourteen-Hours Torture Day) that I …
Only Two More Days!
There are only two more days to donate to the Bridget Kicks Cancer Auction! You can find details about the auction in one of my earlier posts, by clicking a link in the sidebar of my blog, or by going to my friend Amy Baskin’s blog. Thanks to all of the super cool, fabulous people …
The Dark Side
I know I’m lucky that my “neutral” is happy. It makes everything in life a whole lot easier and I realize that a lot of people have to work to get there. I don’t know if I was born that way or if it was a product of reading too many Zen Buddhism books at …