Tag Archives: Ronan

Taylor Swift song inspired by child’s cancer

Maya Thompson began a blog after her son Ronan’s cancer diagnosis.By now you may have heard Taylor Swift’s heart-rending song “Ronan,” about the too-short life of a little boy. Ms. Swift gave it an emotional performance on the Stand Up to Cancer telethon on Sept. 7, and it has been topping the charts ever since.The real boy behind the…

  
  
by | on Sep 19th 2012

Ronan’s Mom Maya Thompson Reacts To Taylor Swift’s Song About Her Son (VIDEO)

When Maya Thompson’s 3-year-old son Ronan was diagnosed with Stage 4 neuroblastoma in August 2010, she started a blog to document an unimaginably difficult family journey. She had no idea that one of her loyal readers was going to be superstar Taylor Swift — and that Swift would one day turn the words on that blog, Rockstar Ronan, into song…

  
  
by | on Sep 13th 2012