She was behind the scenes, the caregiver trying to make arrangements for the day-to-day.

Dana and Chris always said they were elected to a club they never wanted to join.

Unfortunately, that's what happens with this awful disease. You feel good, you're responding and then the downturn.

(The organizers at AFS) warned us about having culture shock when we come back.

Experience is what counts. You want someone who does this every day, not someone who rents for a day to do a couple of surgeries. You don't want to be the guinea pig for an obstetrician delivering his first baby, or a doctor doing open-heart surgery for the first time, right?

It's the process of writing and life that matters... We are trying to become sane along with our poems and stories.