I couldn’t find the quote where it says that if you try to protect yourself from sadness you will protect yourself from happiness. This is the perfect quote for where I am today. I sit at the precipice of something amazing and something terrifying. Nicole & I are buying a house here in Providence, Rhode […]
This past September was my seventh anniversary of being diagnosed with cancer. I wrote a blog about it. It was the last one I wrote. I’ve spent the last week going through the medical motions of getting a new PCP, an Oncologist, and trying and maintain my health. I have been told the chances of […]
Time, of course and cliché-y, is an illusion. Sometimes it falls by us like windows of a building that we just jumped off with the wind whistling in our ears, and sometimes time treats us as immortals: slow. When certain days repeat, we stop and think of ourselves. New Year is no exception, and in […]
For the second time in my 42 years of life, I have successfully finished cancer chemotherapy treatment. The tests came back good and there are no signs of cancer in my body. I have waited a long time after the last treatment for this appointment. Now I get to be cancer free again. Like last […]
I have cancer again. To quote one of my doctors, “It’s not like last time when you had a lot of cancer, this is just a little bit.” One of my lymph nodes got some cancer on it. It’s stage 2. If you didn’t know, I had stage 3 testicular cancer almost four years ago. […]
Meditation for December 27th, 2016 An Apology We are nearing the end of this meditation venture where I said I would write a meditation everyday for a year. Now that I am at the tail end of this, I now know I owe all of you an apology. The reason I started this Cracked Pot […]
I just visited a friend of mine on the sixth floor of Legacy Good Sam. This is the floor I spent so much time on when I was sick. I felt so melencholy walking through those doors. My friend was three doors down (not the band) from where I was sick and didn’t see […]
Meditation for March 4th, 2016 Listening to our Bodies Being in touch with our bodies is a great way to stay healthy. Knowing when our bodies needs food, sleep, exercise, love and those scary times that we need to address our health. Sometimes just being in touch with our bodies helps us get ahead of […]