I'm four chemo tablets into today and feeling pretty good, considering. The sun is spilling between the part-closed curtains into the spare room, my 'Fall' playlist is swirling out of a blue-tooth speaker, and the only side affects I currently feel are a warm wooziness in my head and lead-lined heaviness in my body. It's been an interesting six weeks since I hopped back aboard the chemo train following an 18-month break. Overall, this treatment - which includes ten days of L

This week has had that in-between season feel: I'm peeling open chocolate Christmas coins while the roofer on the house opposite works in...

It's been many months since I've felt the urge to capture a day in words before it fades into a sea of memories. Wednesday was one of...

As I haven't posted on here for a month or two, there's a lot to catch up on. When I trained as a newspaper journalist in the 1990s we...

Take good care of your feet, Pete - Brian Wilson Only grief permits newness - Walter Brueggemann I'm starting my first post in a while...

One thing we've learned over the past two years is that we usually see life more clearly in hindsight. After a flurry of blog posts...

I'm facing a wall mirror as I type this in Macy's downstairs bedroom, and catch a glimpse of myself. It's surreal and a bit surprising to...

The other day, Macy arrived home after a tour of Lichfield's charity shops. She was excited to show me the second-hand Mercury Rev CD...

Yes, I know it's been less than a fortnight since my last post! But quite a lot has happened and I also promised to try and blog a bit...

It appears the cancer may have finally woken from its nine-month slumber. Lisa and myself went to Burton Hospital on Wednesday for my...

Discombobulate is one of my favourite words. It sounds just like it feels. To be discombobulated is to have lost your sense of balance or...

I'm sat in the lounge while the rest of the house snoozes (except for diligent Dan who is at work, freezing somewhere on the side of a...

Yesterday, I preached at church for the first time since my diagnosis. Even though I've written about my cancer journey at length here,...

And so the reprieve continues - five months since I last had chemotherapy, I'm still off treatment. Following my last post (apologies...

I've been off chemo for over three months now - by far my longest treatment break. Some days I feel like a ship unmoored and adrift in a...

It feels like a lot of mileage has been covered - literally and metaphorically - since my last post almost three weeks ago. Since then,...

Tomorrow (Friday) Lisa and myself will board the 7.14am train from Lichfield to London for an appointment at the Royal Marsden hospital...

It was 2,500 years ago when Greek philospher Heraclitus famously said that the only constant in life is change - and nothing has changed...

And relax... A strange sense of stillness has descended (internally at least - I type this as Macy and her boyfriend Charlie are...

By the time this post goes online on Friday I'll have hit my half century. I'll be also hitting my fortnightly chemo slump so it will be...