amid split trees  leaves are crushed earth’s scent rises your worth hushed look up high the sky so clear shoes off, grounding near caress the ground  feel the sound amidst the leaves  a rhythm found for in your life  let […]

fell out of my bed  and into the sky  streaming in tears  i started to cry  i said to myself  this can’t be real  i’m pinching myself  to see if i feel  while in the sky  i met a man  […]

in this life’s labyrinth i traverse through the conundrum where shadows of doubt oftentimes become the concomitant hum but i’ll keep my faith unwavering for this i’ve come to see the divine hand of providence guiding and setting me free […]

with waning strength  and sleepless nights i now understand and i will fight for cancer’s grip  has made me see the beauty in life and set me free in darkness true  i found a star a newfound purpose shining so […]

i see so many  who are just like me  as i ride through this city  and feeling so free  but behind my mask  of courage and grace we all bear our battles in this bustling place as our silence extends  […]

in this summer update, it’s been quite a while since i’ve discussed my ongoing struggle against stage 4 lung cancer and mantle cell lymphoma. initially, i considered naming this update “my enchanting summer,” but then it struck me that every […]

beneath the canvas  of stars so vast in fragments of night shadows recast emerging with  each breaking morn a story of existence  is newly born no longer confined  to daylight’s embrace through galaxies our essence we trace  with boundless light  […]

on the drain’s  edge i tread life’s echoes remain not circling despair that’s not my bane cancer’s weight i carry a challenging terrain yet strength within me rises through struggles and strain every dawn is a skirmish for tranquility i […]

as i awaken each day beneath the shroud of night’s embrace i slip a whisper into the arms of dawn not out of mere fear but the enchantment of seizing that golden moment where life renews itself with every promise […]

wow… this is amazing to me! eight years ago today! exactly eight years ago today i was definitively handed my so called death sentence!” my pc doctor looks at me… and with a sad voice says that line that everyone […]

first of all, happy fathers day to all the dads(biological or not!)out there! you see… this is one of the times when i gauge my own life! as far as my p.c. doctor was concerned back in 2015, i had […]

every morning now i have a routine! it’s a little over 5 miles and each day before 7am i’m in branch brook park on my bike cruising! this is why i tell cancer to kiss my ass!

amorphous shadows always show  the texture of the innocent children playing no longer unconscious of the nature of man but our children don’t require just  thoughts and prayers from the powers that be  the fear for our future is palpable  the handwriting […]

wow… june already! the 29th of this month will make 8 years since my diagnosis of stage four lung cancer! my pc doctor suggested that i should “get my affairs in order!” what a jerk! i actually left his office […]