Essays

Struggle (September 22, 2017)
Years, months, weeks (September 18, 2017)
Is dying a transformative experience? (August 23, 2017)
On the strangeness of hope (July 26, 2017)
An update on the disease (July 10, 2017)
Walking in the park (May 11, 2017)
On being calm about death (May 6, 2017)
What I want you to know (April 24, 2017)
Being a philosopher (April 20, 2017)
On thinking about death (April 8, 2017)
“Why me?” (March 10, 2017)
Commonplace books (February 26, 2017)
On legacy (December 31, 2016)
My fear of dying (October 27, 2016)
How much time do I have left? (October 6, 2016)
Changes to my body (September 1, 2016)
Max Ritvo (August 28, 2016)
A Chinese Accent (August 7, 2016)
On the fear of not being special (August 1, 2016)
I don’t want to die, but I will (July 12, 2016)
Repetitiveness (July 1, 2016)
What we share (June 5, 2016)
Review of Randy Pausch’s “The Last Lecture” (May 15, 2016)
How could I be angry? (May 11, 2016)
Is this a fight? (April 27, 2016)
Drugs I am taking (April 25, 2016)
Allowing ourselves to be imperfect (April 16, 2016)
Fantasizing about not dying (April 5, 2016)
What does it mean to be strong in the face of an incurable disease? (March 14, 2016)
On taking it one step at a time (March 10, 2016)
An uncommon conversation (March 8, 2016)
Time left (March 7, 2016)
Do you carpe diem? (March 6, 2016)
Hello, I have cancer (March 5, 2016)