Barefoot and Laughing

On July 30, 2011, family and friends of Kirstin Paisley gathered together at Trinity Cathedral in Sacramento, California, to remember the g...

A celebration of Kirstin Paisley’s life, including Communion open to all, committal of ashes, and a grand feast afterward, will be held at 1...

Kirstin died a few minutes before 8 p.m. tonight.  After a day of many of us singing to her, she is now singing with the angels.  Rest in pe...

Over last weekend, Kirstin and I had many difficult, and wonderful, conversations.  About her eagerness to spend several hours with each of ...

I started this last night, writing through the sound of an oxygen compressor. It was exceptionally hard to concentrate, but I wanted to sta...

at the right time. A and I went to the ER on Monday because I was breathing heavily; we were afraid the increasing difficulty might be due...

Written by Andee, posted by Kirstin We have just reached the point where Kirstin can no longer stay alone while I am at work.  (This is And...

and bone mets too. Now I know why my knee hurts. I e-mailed my primary yesterday, asking for pain relief. She wrote back asking where the ...

I’m not a mutant. The doctor at UCSF called about an hour ago. Not quite sure what happens next. UCSF will take my scans to their neurolo...

No, I don’t have biopsy results yet. (That would have been the obvious conclusion.) I go stretches between blogging all the time, now. Eit...

The fulcrum may be flatter, but here we still are. I need to blog. I don’t want to. There’s just too much to process.  My speech is clear ...

I heard the word “melanoma” for the first time, from my dermatologist over the phone on a Friday afternoon.  The sky darkened, the earth qua...

Or, a monster-long catch-up: I’m coming out of an inward time. A horrible cough that turned out to be a reaction to Temodar (that’s better...

Hi all, I'm doing the American Cancer Society Relay for Life in Sacramento on April 16. I signed up two weeks ago, and finally tonight...

I’ve had more company this week, than I have in most years. I’m exhausted from people, though I love my friends; and steroids (given to coun...