In this poignant, personal essay, Tom sits with his terminally-ill uncle, Baz, and explores life, loss and laughter, right up to the end. Continue Reading Sketches of Short ...
In the poignant conclusion to “Skydive,” navigate emotions, encounter a terminally ill man’s perspective, and grapple with death in a hospital’s unyielding corridors. Continue Reading Skydive: Part Two
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In “Skydive,” confront mortality outside a hospital, navigating life’s banalities while awaiting entry to face an impending loss. Continue Reading Skydive: Part One
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Step into the world of support groups, kidney disease, and the hope of a transplant. Navigate the intricate roads of love and sex in the face of adversity. ...
A lyrical meditation on reading and the body Continue Reading BECOMING
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The protagonist of this podcast had her own close encounters with death in the past. Through her own illness, she’s forced to relive an old trauma and face her worst ...
“Something told me that the lump on my arm wasn’t to be ignored. Rubbing my finger across the lump, I was certain there was a ball of something under my ...
Life on the cancer ward ebbs and flows in the way it does in any other tributary. A flutter of motion here, an abstract thought there. The need to eat ...
The Roman philosopher Lucius Seneca said, “Disease is not of the body but of the place.” He must have been thinking of the Underground. But when speaking about the body ...