April is National Poetry Month, so I invited newsletter subscribers (What, you haven’t signed up yet?), to share poems they’ve written. Reading them was so fun. I’m going to have to ask for submissions again before next April rolls around! Most of us have written poems somewhere along the line, probably in elementary school, high …
How many times can our hearts break? Yes, how many times indeed? The losses from metastatic breast cancer continue, as does the heartache, the frustration, the anger, the disbelief and the agony. The numbers are staggering. Too many, just too many. When will the numbers start going down? When will the dying stop? How many …
You gotta stop blaming yourself for getting cancer. Seriously, if you’re doing that, or ever have, stop! If you’ve been diagnosed with any serious illness, you probably have asked, why me? You might’ve wondered if something you did or did not do was partly to blame for your predicament. The blame game is pointless, unhelpful …
I am excited to announce (finally) here on the blog that my new ebook, Facing Your Mastectomy & Making Reconstruction Decisions, is now available! If you subscribe to my newsletters, you have known about my new ebook for a while. It always ends up taking me longer than planned to finish any sort of writing project, …
Recently I read the novel, Go Set A Watchman, by Harper Lee. When the book first came out a couple years ago, I was excited to read it, but then I started reading reviews in which people expressed their disappointment in it. I ended up not reading it partly because I didn’t want to be …