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Howard Has a New Name: Glioblastoma

I guess I left you all hanging a week or so ago. I had emergency brain surgery last Friday in an attempt to remove Howard, my brain tumor. They were able to remove the majority of him but he left tentacles behind. Howard is a glioblastoma, which is an aggressive cancer located in a spot in my brain where they can’t be aggressive surgically. None of us get out of this thing we call life alive and it seems I’ve...

How the Mountain Helped Me Heal

Under the influence of altitude I become a different person. I actually feel intoxicated and euphoric when I get high (in elevation), and I usually love the feeling. There’s something about being up high, and feeling high, naturally.  On this particular hike (Humphrey’s Peak, first attempt this year) something different happened though. It may have had a lot to do with the other factors I wrote about in my previous blog, Hiking Humphreys with Howard, my Brain Tumor.   We began...

Honored To Be a Sunshine Blogger Award Nominee

I was surprised, excited, and honored to be nominated by a fellow blogger for the Sunshine Blogger Award. Peer bloggers nominate eleven new bloggers for positivity and creativity. We are then given eleven questions to answer and we nominate eleven other bloggers for the same award. Thank you to: Thank you My Tips and Tea for nominating me. I am honored and grateful for you, and to you! Denise is the host of My Tips and Tea who describes herself...

Fear Will Steal Your Joy

Lying on the ground I looked up at the mountain not too far in the distance, and all I could think is, I’d hike that. But, first, get this eight hundred pound motorcycle off my leg. The pain was intense, but the fear of never again doing what I love was worse. I knew I was hurt, but at the time didn’t know how bad. In the months to come I would discover I had a fracture in my back...

How to Create a Life You Love at Any Age

I rolled out of bed at 4 o’clock a.m. today, as I always do, went about my usual routine, then headed out for a sunrise hike. I was tired and sore after hiking Mt. Elden yesterday, the first hike for me in the Arizona Six Pack of Peaks summer series. Mount Elden is about a six mile round trip hike, rising about 2500 feet to an elevation of 9282 feet. Read my review here. After my hike this morning, with...