Traveling Light - Ward, William
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William Ward has written a personal account of his life following a fateful diagnosis of a brain tumor, or gliablastoma multiforme Phase IV cancer. Rising above self-pity and sentimentality, he describes his outer path across a landscape of hospitals, surgeons, pain, powerful drugs, and the support of family, friends, and community, taking the reader along the inner path of inevitable regrets, self-examination, fears, and hopes in the face of a potentially terminal illness.

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William Ward has written a personal account of his life following a fateful diagnosis of a brain tumor, or gliablastoma multiforme Phase IV cancer. Rising above self-pity and sentimentality, he describes his outer path across a landscape of hospitals, surgeons, pain, powerful drugs, and the support of family, friends, and community, taking the reader along the inner path of inevitable regrets, self-examination, fears, and hopes in the face of a potentially terminal illness.
Autorenporträt
William Ward, a native of Michigan, majored in English literature as an undergraduate at Columbia University before studying elementary education at the Waldorf Institute of Adelphi University, where he received a master's degree. William was a Waldorf class teacher for twenty-five years at Hawthorne Valley School in Harlemville, New York, from 1976 until 2005. He had taken three full classes from grades 1 to 8 and was in the fourth grade with his fourth class when he retired to deal with the diagnosis of a brain tumor. A lover of the theater, William wrote numerous class plays and festival presentations and collaborated in all-school musical productions. He crossed the threshold October 5, 2008, at the age of sixty-one.