Tag: Pancreatic Cancer

• Miracle On Cherokee Street

  

  I received my only pairs of legwarmers, one pink and one purple, from my sister Pam. She had been so excited to give them to me; she couldn’t wait until Christmas. Routinely, before we fell asleep in her bed, we would eat candy bars, Butterfingers and Skors. I was the first to know her baby…

  homegrownjournal

  December 7, 2022

  2022, December 2022, From the Editor, Storytellers

  Butterfingers, Chemotherapy side effects, Homegrown Journal, Hospice, ICEE, Jesus, Jesus' gift of Salvation, Julie Johnson, Jumajo Writing Company, Legwarmers, Miracles, Pancreatic Cancer, Romans 10:10, Romans 5:8, Romans 6, Romans 8, Salvation, Skors, Whitney Houston

• Grieve Well

  

  Farmer Don is an 89-year-old man I meet every so often on my morning walk. Sunrise changes our habits during summer, so I hadn’t seen him for a few months when I ran into him in September. After the initial, “Where have you beens,” my mom asked him how he had been doing. “Not well,”…

  homegrownjournal

  October 3, 2021

  2021, October 2021, Storytellers

  Diabetes, Gallbladder Cancer, Grief, Julie Johnson, Pancreatic Cancer, Psalm 34:18, Vulnerability