This month marks eight years blogging for me. Eight years! Sometimes it’s even hard for me to believe I’ve been at it this long. When I started, I had no idea how long I’d continue. Actually, I had no idea what blogging was about, period. It’s a learn as you go sorta thing. And believe …
Cancer Was Not a Gift & It Didn't Make Me a Better Person
Calling cancer a gift or an opportunity for enlightenment is insulting! Cancer is not a gift, nor is it an enlightenment program from which you emerge as a new and improved version of your former self. At least I do not view it as such, and the latter did not happen for me.
This post is an excerpt from my memoir, Cancer Was Not a Gift & It Didn’t Make Me a Better Person: A memoir about cancer as I know it. Before my bilateral mastectomy, I was busy Googling away and found little about what it was really like waking up from a mastectomy. I mean, the …
Did you know April 23rd is World Book Day? I first learned about this annually designated day last year. This year, I decided to “do” something with the day. I am offering you, my dear readers, a special sale. You can purchase any of my three books (pdf format via the blog only) for two …
Keeping it real. Support you can use. If you’ve subscribed to my email list, you already know these two phrases pretty much sum up what I try to do here on the blog. They’re sort of like my mission statements. But what do they really mean, and am I actually delivering on either one?