Kids’ Almanac (6/7-6/14)
KING TRIES HOT DOG AND ASKS FOR MORE | National Get Outdoors Day | GlassBarge demos in Poughkeepsie, Kingston and Catskill | Happy Birthday, Forsyth Nature Center!
All posts by Erica Chase-Salerno
Erica’s Cancer Journey: “If you don’t know, now you know: 25 things about Erica”
t#16: When I have a smooth customer service transaction, I never take it for granted and ask to speak to the supervisor to report it.
Kids’ Almanac (5/31-6/7)
Family fun as Bethel Woods turns ten | See Phoenicia on a Rail Explorer — a cart you drive on the train tracks!
Erica’s Cancer Journey: The space between
This interior glimpse will yield two words that I wish were different: progression and swelling. My tumors are squatters, sprawled out, feet up on the table, defiant, undaunted by previous attempts to evict them.
Kids’ Almanac (5/24-5/31)
Make your own binoculars at the Catskill Interpretive Center’s Family Day; History Scavenger Hunt in Uptown Kingston; World War II events at FDR Library & Museum; Map Launch Party at Arrowood Farms.
Erica’s Cancer Journey: “MBC: Maureen, Brooke, Charlotte/Metastatic Breast Cancer”
“She died,” I heard three different times this month. Now, I know I will die from my disease. What I did not realize was the number of friends I would lose along the way to Stage IV metastatic breast cancer, including most recently Charlotte, Maureen and Brooke.
Kids’ Almanac (5/17-5/24)
Endangered Species Weekend at Millbrook’s Trevor Zoo, Slabsides Day in West Park | Make seed paper and seed balls at Clermont | Spring Land of Chocolate MyKingstonKids Fest
Erica’s Cancer Journey: “Chomp – Gulp – ‘Bye”
I see parallels between this Slacker Pie Crust recipe and my odyssey with cancer.
Kids’ Almanac (5/10-5/17)
Young Eagles Day at the Kingston Airport features free 20-minute plane rides for kids; make-your-own kaleidoscope at the Emerson; free admission for community residents at Olana; Spring Family Days at Poughkeepsie Farm Project and KTD Monastery in Woodstock
Erica’s Cancer Journey: One More MRI and I’ll Stick to the Fridge!
People say that it’s what’s on the inside that counts. In my cancer world, these MRIs are one way doctors actually “count” my insides.