http://denver.yourhub.comThe latest blog posts in The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.comen-usnews@yourhub.com(c) 2009, YourHub.com5I admit it. I've got nothing to hide or to be ashamed of. I've been doing it a long time and at last I must confess. My husband only recently discovered the truth so it's time to come clean with everyone else once and for all. I attend therapy sessions every Friday morning. Religiously. It all...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Blog~489654.aspx6/27/2008 3:44:09 PMLiz Holzemer I can't help it! I have to toot my own horn on this one. After all, where would writers be if they didn't?! My labor of love, Curveball: When Life Throws You a Brain Tumor has won the 2008 Colorado Authors' League "Harvey" Award for Book Length Nonfiction in the Service and Information...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Blog~481064.aspx6/7/2008 10:56:26 AMLiz Holzemer The first part of May usually has people thinking about that special box of chocolates, a floral arrangement or even Hallmark's latest and greatest record-your-own greeting cards for mom on Mother's Day. I'm thinking about meningiomas instead. I think about them a lot, especially as the 11 th A...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Blog~465717.aspx5/4/2008 10:44:06 AMLiz Holzemer This time it is a Willie Nelson reprisal. Cringe all you want my friends. In the tube again How I hate to get in that tube again The life I had before this brain tumor journey began And I can so wait to get in that tube again In the tube again Goin' to hospitals that I've never ...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Blog~421061.aspx1/28/2008 8:53:45 PMLiz Holzemer Dear 39.999999999, You've run out of time No longer are you mine I've held on to you for as long I can I must lesson my grasp; let you slip through my hands Just round the corner, a new decade awaits The magical forties, I've been told they're great Before we part our sep...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Blog~340456.aspx7/27/2007 6:23:13 PMLiz Holzemer It's over, it happened. Here today, gone tomorrow. Now you see it, now you don't. After two years in the making. All the sweat, blood and tears. The highs, the lows. The sighs, the woes. The anticipated hype and build up has lost its fizz quicker than flat soda. My first baby, Curveball...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Blog~330048.aspx7/3/2007 1:39:26 PMLiz Holzemer I could be referring to the boys of summer and their just weeks away Opening Day baseball debut, but this isn't a story about that kind of baseball. Sure baseball plays somewhat of a leading role-the meningioma brain tumor I miraculously survived seven years ago happened to be the size of...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Blog~280336.aspx3/17/2007 11:20:21 AMLiz Holzemer "PERFECTY CLEAR." I'm still savoring these two best sounding words from my neurosurgeon. Stable, no changes. I've tacked my radiology report to my office wall as additional proof that the "ex" as in suspected residual meningioma brain tumor, isn't welcome back. Ever. I'll take ...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Blog~178568.aspx2/3/2007 1:31:56 PMLiz Holzemer No, I'm not talking about the impending fourth snowstorm in as many weeks to pummel us again, but rather the looming doom I always feel during this time of year....the dreaded MRI. Nine days from now to be exact, I'll get strapped into that all too familiar hollow tube and get shot up with e...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Blog~168620.aspx1/9/2007 4:39:03 PMLiz Holzemer Ok, I'm not one to generally toot my own horn, but I can't contain my excitement any longer. I have a book cover! Whoo hoo! The book publishing journey is a long frustrating, overwhelming, stressful (sort of like dealing with a brain tumor!)one and when one of those little pieces finally com...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Blog~136986.aspx10/12/2006 3:39:38 PMLiz Holzemer What all writers sacrifice, slave, and suffer for has finally happened for me. You know what I'm talking about-enduring painful rejection after painful rejection, nurturing your muse for naught, even questioning whether it's all worth it in the quest for the writer's ultimate Holy Grail- PUBL...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Blog~91983.aspx6/5/2006 5:12:27 PMLiz Holzemer Sorry to leave all of you hanging since February. Then again,I have yet to receive a concerned email so I guess most of youhaven't been holding your breath like me. It's taken this long for it all to sink it; for me to digestthe news from top notch neurosurgeons and radiologists; to acc...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Blog~77924.aspx4/23/2006 2:27:32 PMLiz Holzemer Even though I've had countless MRI's over the years, the same fear still settles in when my annual MRI approaches. As a six-year brain tumor survivor, I can't help it. Pardon the pun, but it's literally on the back of my mind or in my case, front and center in my right temporal lobe. I've su...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Blog~56921.aspx2/25/2006 2:57:37 PMLiz Holzemer It was six years ago this week, but it still feels like that morning. A damp, cold, gray, Colorado winter morning when the sun had yet to rise and peek through my shutters stirring me from sleep. Instead, the high pierced shrill of a phone performed the sun’s daily ritual. With re...http://denver.yourhub.com/HighlandsRanch/Blogs/Archive/Blog~52414.aspx2/10/2006 11:21:31 AMLiz Holzemer