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 …
Advocacy
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 …
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 …
I was recently asked by Liz Flaherty, blogger at “Window Over the Sink.” to write a guest post sharing my thoughts about Breast Cancer Awareness Month, pink ribbons, and such. Of course, I said yes. To make sure you see and read it, I’ve reblogged it here — something I’ve never done before. Follow the …
Since it’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month again (yawn), it seems like a good time to talk about advocacy in general. Any type of serious illness or other trauma can make a person want to “do” something with the experience. This comes from a feeling of wanting to help others who are, or will be, facing …