That Time I Had Cancer

“What’s your prognosis?” is a common question I am asked. This is a polite of saying, “Are you going to die?’ My answer is, “Yes. I assume I am going to die at some point, but I don’t know when any more than you, non-cancer-ridden-person, do.” Watching the Oscars a couple weeks ago I wondered, like many, why the director of Frozen, Chris Buck, thanked his son and “guardian angel” Ryder Buck in his acceptance speech. I mean… I didn’t really wonder "why." I assumed his son had

If anything in the Vlog seems too ridiculous to be true, then it is absolutely 100% true. My father really did die while he was working out. He really was working out "Donald Duck" style (no pants, stylish shirt, and often a jaunty sailor's hat). I joke about losing my dad as a coping mechanism, and because I believe it is genuinely what he would have wanted. For more about my dad, who was a pretty amazing guy, you can read some obituaries here: The Chicago Sun Times The C