Nancy’s Point Has Moved!

If you’ve been thinking I’ve been quieter of late, you’d be right. Well, quieter in this space anyway. I’ve been working hard behind the scenes trying to get ready for a couple big changes coming. Change can be hard. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t change. For the most part, change is a good thing. …

The other day, I was checking analytics on my social media accounts and elsewhere and thinking about how to best tell potential readers about my newest book, EMERGING: Stories from the Other Side of a Cancer Diagnosis, Loss, and a Pandemic, when it hit me. My memoir, Cancer Was Not a Gift & It Didn’t …

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about numbers and why they matter. Or rather, I’ve been reminding myself to remember that they don’t. Or at least not as much as I sometimes think they do. Maybe you’ve thought about this too. Or maybe you’re reading this and asking, what in the world is she talking …

There are many reasons and traumas that result in people suffering from survivor guilt. Some of these traumas include war, shootings, natural disasters, automobile or airplane crashes, terrorist attacks, and more. This post focuses specifically on cancer-related survivor guilt. If you’re a person who’s heard those words, you have cancer, you have likely experienced at …

I’ve read a fair number of articles about this topic over the last decade+ but haven’t written one myself. Perhaps it’s because the idea of wishing I’d known more about cancer upon diagnosis sounds strange to me. When you think about it, would you really have wanted to know any of this stuff before your …