Welcome to David Everett Fisher Dot Com. This has been the home of my stories, essays, art, jokes, cancer journey, and miscellaneous. I have recently started a Substack to hopefully attract more readers. One is the Superstitious Agnostic, a weekly newsletter about long-term sobriety in Alcoholics Anonymous without believing in a God. The other is […]

I have chosen to walk through a portal; other times, I have crossed a threshold without knowing it until I was on the other side. One of my favorite solo activities as a kid was wandering the woods off the trail to find hallows, alters, ancient wonders, and a good stick. I would get poison […]

There is a saying that wherever you go, there you are, but sometimes you go where you were, and there you are now. Places change, and so do we. It is easier to imagine a place I have never been to be a greener pasture than to imagine where I am from being great again. […]

The day was February 12th, 1994. All For Love by Bryan Adams and Sting led the charts; Ace Ventura was dominating the box office; Bill Clinton was president – the first term; Michael Crighton’s Disclosure was the top NY Times book; Green Day’s Dookie has just come out, and I was getting sober for the […]

I went to a presentation by the Department of Transformation last Saturday. I didn’t know what I was getting myself into, whether it was a band, a lecture, or an art exhibit, but I just went. I didn’t know if I would know anyone there, but it was time to leave the apartment.  I have […]

I was sick on New Year’s Eve. I was asleep by 10 something. I had a fever and a wheeze. It took away the ritual of passing from 2024 into 2025, and now it feels like it is still just 2024. I write this blog hoping to create that threshold that separates years and makes […]

September 4th was my tenth anniversary from when I was initially diagnosed with stage three cancer. I have returned to Facebook after not being on it for the last four-plus years, and one of the things I got to look at is what I was posting during that time—memories through social media. While it has […]

It has been hard to find the voice of this website. I am a man of many interests and am so overwhelmed with ideas it becomes hard to implement them all. I also don’t have a good sense of what the readers like and don’t like other than the random anonymous negative comment that I […]