on credit

eight weeks ago
when the phonecall came,
leanne was in her car,
in a parking lot
outside a department store.
i was in washington dc
teaching a workshop and listening
to people tell stories about, yes,
having cancer and a childhood friend drowning
and how to take care of bees
and a father who painted every leaf
green, by hand, on his dying bonsai tree
and a [...]

chemo, interrupted

so, i didn’t have chemo today …. my blood counts are too low, meaning that i haven’t recovered enough from the last dose to tolerate the next one safely. this is fairly common, especially with this aggressive treatment. so, danny and i spent 4 hours at the clinic today as they ran tests [...]