About me
I am a 4-time cancer survivor living with rare, persistent, and incurable head/neck cancer. I also fly paragliders. My wife and I live in Olympia WA with our Great Pyrenees mix, Mabel. We live in a house full of books, and beads, and Mabel’s fur.
In addition to writing, I serve as an Ambassador for the Head and Neck Cancer Alliance and sit on the board of several paragliding related non-profits.
About Unflappable
The name of this Substack is a nod to birds, to wings (paragliders), and a form of reconstruction I’ve had, twice - free flap reconstruction, or flap surgery for short. Unflappability is another way to describe resilience. This newsletter came into existence in early 2024 when I decided to take 6 months off work after more cancer and another surgery. The original intent was to document my sabbatical, gain experience writing for an audience, and then see where that took me.
Since then, I wrote and published my first book, Unflappable: Soaring Beyond a Diagnosis.
Benefits for subscribers
If you have any interest in writing or reading memoirs, personal storytelling, or learning more about yourself, you should join us. If cancer has touched your life in some way, subscribe—I have a lot to say on the subject after a 10 year journey, which is still unfolding.
Nearly everything I write is available to all subscribers
Paid subscribers get the following perks:
Access to my entire archive of posts (2 years worth)
My unending gratitude
If you are enthusiastic about this journey, but unable to afford a subscription, please reach out.
DISCLAIMER
The opinions expressed in Unflappable are based on the author’s experiences and in no way constitute advice about medicine, healthcare, cancer, paragliding, or other real-life, high risk activities that lawyers write disclaimers about.
