When I started blogging, I knew from the get-go I wanted to write about breast cancer and loss. When my mother died from metastatic breast cancer, my life changed forever. Less than two years later when I was diagnosed with breast cancer myself, obviously things changed pretty darn dramatically again.
Cancer
It’s been over a decade since I heard those words, you have cancer. Actually, the words I heard were, you have ‘a’ cancer. I’ve always wondered about that little ‘a’ inserted into the conversation I had on the phone with ‘a’ doctor that spring day. Yes, ‘a’ doctor delivered the news, not ‘my’ doctor; another …
Words matter. They just do. I know I’ve said this in blog posts time and time again. I’ll probably say it many more times. Because it’s true. And words on a billboard matter too.
Update: This billboard was taken down shortly after this post was widely shared as criticism mounted. Our collective voices matter! Still, the question remains. Why was it so poorly thought out and put up in the first place? Messaging matters. Recently on a pleasant Saturday outing, Dear Hubby and I were driving along and talking …
For me, reading the new book, A Breast Cancer Alphabet by Madhulika Sikka, was like getting one gigantic writing prompt. If you missed my review on this book, click here. While reading A Breast Cancer Alphabet, I immediately started thinking about what my word choices would be that I’d match up to each letter of …