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What If 27 Aug 2013 | 06:44 am
One of the hardest things for me is that too much of the time, the thought lurks in the back of my head: “What if she dies?” I think any parent has that thought at specific moments, no matter how har...
One Step At A Time 25 Aug 2013 | 07:37 am
This is the stage of recovery where things are both going great and deeply difficult. (Because alliteration.) And the two are inextricably intertwined, so that even the difficulty becomes a sign of ...
Holding Pattern 22 Aug 2013 | 10:53 pm
A lot of people have asked how they can help us, and the truth is that right now, I really don’t know. Even more importantly, I don’t need to know. Throwing me a thousand things to think about is no...
The Diagnosis 22 Aug 2013 | 05:16 am
Rebecca has grade 3 (anaplastic) astrocytoma. With six weeks of proton radiation bombardment of her brain and a year of mild chemotherapy, she still has a 50% chance of dying at some point in the nex...
77 Hours 20 Aug 2013 | 04:43 am
The days leading up to the discovery of Rebecca’s tumor were, in a lot of ways, just as filled with uncertainty as the days after. On the day before we left for vacation, Rebecca had her hair tightly...
Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Back 19 Aug 2013 | 06:59 am
As we were warned by many and are beginning to learn the very hard way, this is a journey of many setbacks. The tumor that had grown in Rebecca’s head, forcing itself between all the most critical ar...
Lend Us Your Strength 17 Aug 2013 | 05:41 am
Our five-year-old daughter, Rebecca, is currently between major surgeries at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. We were on vacation in south New Jersey when what seemed to be a serious bout of ...
If Harry Befriended Sally 10 Jul 2013 | 08:01 pm
I really want to see a mainstream Hollywood movie, preferably with stars in the lead roles, that goes basically like this: a couple of single people meet cute, become very good friends, meet and fall...
Ciao, Camino 31 May 2013 | 11:36 pm
It’s been obvious for a long time that Camino was withering away, but they’ve called a formal end to the project. Here’s how I made Firefox act a lot like Camino.
Collective Editorial: the Plugin 28 May 2013 | 09:55 pm
As I was reading an article with a few scattered apostrophe errors, I wished that I could highlight each one, hit a report button, and know that the author had been notified of the errors so that they...
