After 40 years on T.V., in 3 different Western cities, I’ve become a blue-fingernailed, beanie-wearing celebrity overnight…thanks to cancer. Don’t get me wrong, I love the status upgrade but wish the circumstances were slightly different. My new-found-fame has meant well-wishes…
Monthly Archives: February 2013
Crunchy or Creamy?
I am the proud owner of a peanut butter mill. It may sound odd to you, but it makes perfect sense to me. I spent many years in Portales, New Mexico, a town lovingly known as Goober Gulch. It is…
Nieces & Nephews
Here is a common Fox 5 conversation during the night shift: “A burglar sneaks up to a door, a flower pot slips from a ledge and hits the burglar on top of the head. Police arrest the unconscious bad-guy. Is this…
The Voice of an Angel?
Kathleen Bade, my Fox 5 co-anchor at 6 & 10pm, loves to sing and dance. She loves loves loves to sing and dance. As a former ballerina and ASU cheerleader, she’s got championship moves, and she loves singing so much…
Where in the World is Loren Nancarrow?
Turns out I have been unclear. In my attempts to be artistic and profound, I have been vague. I haven’t really told you exactly what’s been going on in my life. The reason I haven’t been in my anchor chair…
Tagged with: brain, Cancer, diagnosis, Fox 5, Loren Nancarrow, prognosis, Tumor
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35 Potted Plants
There are 35 potted plants on my front porch. They came from my coworkers at Fox 5. Apparently, after 3 decades they’ve noticed how much I like to lecture people about plants. As long as we’re on the subject, don’t…
So, now you’ve got blue nails…
I rolled out of bed this morning laughing at the thought of my formerly-buttoned-down, conservative friends awaking to cobalt blue fingernails. The last couple days you’ve put on a lovely coat of polish and now you’re faced with actually living…
Tagged with: Brain Tumor, Cancer, Cobalt Blue, Loren Nancarrow, The Nancarrow Project
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Cobalt Blue On You
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Uncle Lou
Uncle Lou long outlived his contemporaries. He ate like a bird and always made appointments. Lou Dameson died a few months back. As best we can tell, he was close to 100 years old—ages after lung cancer was supposed to…
Cobalt Blue
My friend, Bill Toone, is a wildlife biologist. I’m sure he won’t mind me saying that he boils the whole world down into the chemical reactions that make us who we are. We eat because of chemical reactions. We breed…
The Nancarrow Project 