A dear friend of mine, Nina Lesowitz, is putting together a book on the subject of Gratitude. She invited me to write a few words, and after doing so, realized that it was a logical summary of the series of journal entries I had logged after my brain tumor diagnosis of six years ago. I’ve [...]
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Gratitude
Posted in Journey to Health, tagged brain tumor, gratitude, survival on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Five Years of Survival
Posted in Journey to Health, tagged alternative medicine, brain tumor, Chi Gung, health, survival on September 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Five years ago this month, my life changed forever when I was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Since that time, I have chronicled my journey back to health with a series of messages, of which this is the latest. At first, when things were changing rapidly, they were much more frequent. As I improved and [...]
Ready For the Dipsea
Posted in Journey to Health, tagged brain tumor, National Brain Tumor Foundation on June 6, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, I was featured in an article in the Marin (CA) Independent Journal about people who run a local foot race as a memorial to loved ones. In my case, I ran last year in memory of someone I had never met…a woman named Summer Skye who had survived a brain tumor to run races [...]
Dan Lives: The Beginning
Posted in Journey to Health, tagged alternative medicine, brain tumor, Chi Gung, National Brain Tumor Foundation on May 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I titled this blog “Dan Lives” to communicate the belief that life is its own reward…and because it’s short. It started as my version of the “Bird Lives” graffiti that appeared in New York after the death of Coltrane, but it has come to serve me well as an affirmation in my journey to recovery [...]
The Brain Tumor Guy
Posted in Journey to Health, tagged brain tumor, guitar, National Brain Tumor Foundation, TV, VH-1 on April 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
A few months ago, a friend of one of my children told them “I saw your dad on TV last night on VH-1 playing a guitar.” When this news reached me, I was both intrigued and clueless. I did put out a CD a couple of years ago to widespread indifference, but that did not [...]
