Dad’s (Dood) cancer journey

Surprise CBC Radio 89.3 interview on Sunday at 8:00am

I mentioned yesterday that while I was emailing John from McNally Robinson and he sent me an email saying that a producer from CBC Radio 89.3 FM wanted to contact me to do an interview on Sunday Morning with journalist Terry MacLeod who does The Weekend Morning Show.   I spoke with Terry this afternoon and although it […]

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Cancer Crossing: Details of our first event!

Cancer Crossing: DETAILS OF OUR FIRST PUBLIC EVENT!!: We are pleased to announce the ‘ Cancer Crossing e-book Pre-launch Exhibition’ .  This Exhibition can be seen at the Blankstein Gallery in Winnipeg’s Millennium Library. I am featured as one of the stories about cancer from the caregiver’s perspective (my Dad). Looking forward to attending the […]

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Happy Birthday to me and Dad; off to Mexico

My birthday was a couple days ago and Dad’s was yesterday. He would have been 82. Several family and friends called and emailed on Feb. 1 and 2 for my birthday. I’ve been so used to acknowledging both days, I am going to claim them both and I’m sure that Dad won’t mind. For my […]

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Dad’s story featured in book titled “Cancer Crossing”

If you have been following my blog, you may have read in my last post that I attended a workshop on Self-Publishing. At that workshop, I met several people who are also interested in self-publishing. Three of those people are working on a book titled: Cancer Crossing. They asked me to participate by telling my […]

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Happy Father’s Day; Remembering Dad (the Dood)

Happy Father’s Day to all you dads and to all you moms who took the place of dads on many occasions when raising your families.  This morning my son-in-law Trent is running in the Manitoba Marathon relay. I think he’ll be doing the first part which is 5 miles and there are 4 others who […]

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I’ve finally recovered Well that was a few days ago but I’ve been so busy with the conference in Phoenix that I have been brain dead at the end of each day to think coherently.  My walk on Saturday went very well.  I think the course was longer than the 20k that it was supposed […]

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Finished my 20k walk!  I am done but too tired to write!  Will write later…. Related posts:

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YEAH!!!  I reached my goal of $2000!!! Now for sure I have to finish the walk. Thank you 2000 times!!! I’m pretty happy!! Yeah!! Related posts:

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One day to go and almost at my goal! It’s only one more sleep till my walk and I am in a head space where I’m visualizing the finish line.  The course has some detours because of construction but I’m looking forward to doing the 21k.  The sponsors are serving breakfast and lunch but I […]

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Just two days to go till my 20k walk for canc!

Glistening at hot yoga Well, I survived 4 classes of hot yoga – the 4th of which was last night.  I am either getting used to the heat or it was not so hot last night. On Sunday, Sophie, Sharm and I did a combination pilates/yoga class and the teacher was quite good  The class […]

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