Our Cancer Journey Blog

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The Crown in the Road

Enjoy this Special Guest Post to the OCJ Blog! Introduction Hi OCJ Podcast Listeners and Article Readers! I welcome you to read this “Guest Post” from cancer survivor Tim Schartung. His article below reflects on his life and things within all of our lives that can be examples and analogies for us as we move […]

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One Great Way to Responded to People First Hearing About Your Cancer  

A Cancer Patient and OCJ Podcast Listener Reaches Out About ‘Awkward Situations’ I recently received a message from a cancer patient who had just completed treatments.  In the message, the sender commented on the awkward reactions they had received from people that 1) they had not seen for a while, and 2) the friend didn’t know about […]

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Announcing the Official Our Cancer Journey Podcast Facebook Page!

Hello Friends, My name is Bruce Watkins and I am the host of the Our Cancer Journey Podcast.  We are excited to announce that we have just published our podcast’s Official Facebook Page!    We will post announcements about our newly published podcast episodes here, as well as Our Cancer Journey (OCJ) news and other interesting […]

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ZZ – Now In Ushuaia, Argentina … “The End of the World”

The Southern-Most City In the World I arrived in Ushuaia Argentina last night. Ushuaia calls itself, “Fin del Mundo” (“The End of the World”) by the locals in Argentina. Well, and a lot of Marketing people pitching this unique and strangely positioned city. Ushuaia is the Southern-most reasonably populated cities on the planet. The roads that […]

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ZZ – Hold Fast and Jim Brown’s Inspiration

This article is brief tribute to my fellow South American volunteer, fellow cancer survivor, Pre-school assistant extraordinaire and my friend, Jim Brown, and his inspiring “Hold Fast” philosophy. I First Learned of Hold Fast in Lima, Peru Not long ago I was volunteering in Lima, Peru.   I had gotten the opportunity to travel  there […]

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