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Dec 19

‘Tis the Season

In just a few months, I’ll be starting my 10th year of running on the American Cancer Society DetermiNation team. Over that time, I’ve run more than 20 races in a dozen locations for “DNation.” In fact, when I register for a race now, the first thing I do after receiving my registration confirmation is …

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Nov 19

Kicking the Scary Face of Cancer

“Double, double, toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble.” It was Halloween, 2002, and Emily was lying in a hospital bed while the witches’ brew was gurgling inside her body, a potent dose of cisplatin, doxyrubicin and methotrexate whose job it was to find and smoke out the cancer gremlins lurking in her leg. …

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Oct 25

Boston Bound

As I made the hard left turn onto Columbus Avenue, the banner reading “FINISH” suddenly came into view, stretched across 8 lanes of two-legged machines. “I DID IT! I DID IT! I DID IT!” At last! With 26.1 miles of the Chicago Marathon behind me and just one-tenth of a mile to go, the wave …

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