Karen Tenney, author of A Mad Desire for God, is offering a holiday special on her memoir of a chaotic and abusive childhood, a destined meeting with a powerful and loving spiritual master, to a diagnosis of inoperable brain cancer that radically changed her life. Forced to face her own mortality, Karen dove deeper into her […]
Health and a New Kind of Hope I hear from practically everyone I meet how good I look, how radiant and healthy my skin tone is (as opposed to that ghastly grey pallor that took over my face during chemo and radiation). Now, with my doctors’ seal of approval on my good health and health […]
Part I: Coming Back to Life I am happy to report that I’m doing very well and am ready to fly full-steam ahead on publicizing my book. It has been three years and three months since the brain tumor was diagnosed and my chemo treatments began with Dr. Arenson at Swedish Medical Center in […]
What are your thoughts on Angelina Jolie’s recent mastectomy www.causes.com (click on above link to see the Op-Ed article) Actress and director, Angelina Jolie, published a New York Times OP-ED piece today called, My Medical Choice, which chronicles her decision to have a preventative double mastectomy when she learned that she had a 87% risk […]
February 17, 2013 Dear friends and family, I regret to inform you that after a year and a half of remission from brain cancer, I discovered a fast-growing carcinoma in my right breast. Because I caught it early, it had not yet spread to my lymph nodes. I had two biopsies with the final one resulting […]
Kaya has experienced more than her fair share of grief. She knows that even the boundless depth of my love for her cannot create a large enough crucible to hold all her feelings about my dying and her having to carry on without me. She and I both knew that in all likelihood, I will […]
Tuesday January 8, 2013 – I’m facing the possibility of another round of chemo after I discovered a lump in my breast. I’ve had benign lumps before and I’m scheduled for a biopsy Friday, January 18th. Will keep you posted.