I started this blog initially to share my Dad’s story. Maybe I was too quick to write because it was the one year anniversary of him leaving us but I was all fired up and then I just fell apart. For weeks.

Christmas 2018 was pretty awful. The year before we were still in shock and my mom was still having her own cancer battle and I was trying to get her house cleaned out. But December 2018 hit me like a ton of bricks. There was no mess to clean up. Nothing to plan for. No forces pushing me this way or that. Just me staring at a Christmas tree with zero desire to decorate it much less put any gifts under it.

But since then I’ve had a few friends go through some serious cancer journeys and come to me for advice or to vent and I’m pulled back to getting this blog going.  So here’s my plan.

I’m going to share my Dad’s story chronologically. No inserts of Op Eds.

I’m going to write at least once a week.

I’m gonna fight like hell to make it out of my grief.

Now back to our story….