Priorities

“I nuked another Grandma’s Apple Pie and hung my head in shame,” -Ben Folds It’s funny– well, not funny “ha, ha,” but funny surreal–how thinking about dying in a less-than-abstract way changes your sense of priorities. As most people reading this will already know, death has lurked around Julie and I for the last several…

Finally, the Phill has come… home?

“She eyes me like a Pisces when I am weak.”-Nirvana So I have cancer. Yeah, I’m coming to grips with that myself, too. It was sudden, but then again I suppose most catastrophic, life-altering illnesses are. I remember my mother was on a path to something bad, but it wasn’t the thing we thought was…