Angela Denton Foss

In the memoir of my cancer season, I talk about how I view returning to the cancer hospital several times a year for blood checks.   I say that I used to view my checks as a return to the scene of the “crime,” but that my hope is to instead view them a return to […]

As I age, I find myself around more and more people who are dealing with health issues.  And yes, I know this is “normal.”  Something struck me recently, though, as I listened to various people I know talk about their health as well as about the health of those around them.  The phrase “at least […]

This past week, on Friday the 13th no less, I again had the opportunity to speak and even have my first official book signing; and I was able to do both at one of my very favorite places on the planet.  The venue was The Olde English Tea Room in Wake Forest, NC, one of […]

As anyone who has read my memoir knows, there’s a “Welcome Home…..Again” chapter in it.  In this chapter in the book, I was referring to the season when I returned home after having my bone marrow transplant.  In this post, I’m referring to what I did on June 2, 2014.  I went “home” to share […]

This week in the United States began with Memorial Day, a day for us to remember all of the people who have made the choice to put the lives of others before their very own.  Until this year, I never really thought about the parallel between the choice that people make when they enter into […]

It’s hard to believe that 17 years have passed since my dad died but they have.  He died on May 13, 1997; I was 26 years old at the time, recently married and devastated beyond words.  I talk about Dad’s death a little in Hear I AM and am currently writing something else that I’ll […]

This post is actually from my friend Jane’s celebration of life service.  Please trust me when I say that Jane is a woman worth hearing about more than once.  She was remarkable!  And for reasons I still can’t see, she trusted my words, asking me to deliver her “eulogy” shortly after we met.  “It has […]

Today is the anniversary of my bone marrow transplant.  I am three (from an immune and blood formation system perspective at least).  Yes, “it” happened exactly three years ago.  Three years is a big deal in the medical community (according to what “they” have told me).  My transplant specialist even told me once (at the […]

Like I imagine most followers of Christ have done at some point, I have prayed, especially since my sick season, that I would be of use to God.  And recently, God has allowed me to see that he is indeed using me/my story.  Thursday, I had the privilege of meeting a woman who had read […]

An empty cross…..my house is full of them.  Why?  Because I seem to spend my life forgetting to remember.  I forget to remember what was done for me.  I forget to remember why I’m even really here.  And I forget to remember that, no matter what happens to me or around me, a most beautiful […]