I don’t think anyone warned me that at a certain age, everywhere I turned, people would be getting divorced or getting cancer. Or maybe I was warned and I just didn’t listen. Or I listened politely, but immediately dismissed the warnings. Which might speak to a certain hubris and youthful arrogance, but in my own … Read more
There was this hot minute where I wondered whether this should be the year I tried NaNoWriMo, which challenges a writer to write 50,000 of a novel during the month of November. The answer is “Nope. ‘Tis not to be that kind of November.” There’s a lot of life-stuff happening. BUT I will be revisiting … Read more
The first weeks after my colectomy are a series of ups and downs, but I’m learning how to traverse them.
I receive orders from The Woo-Woo to
As my colectomy surgery date approaches, I deal with a pre-surgery limbo and also make my final decision on whether to undergo a prophylactic oophorectomy.
Guess what? I have a date for my surgery—April 7! It’s a little more in the future than we’d originally envisioned, by about a month. Which gives me some time to do what I do best… over-think it! Part of the reason for the delayed date is that is that we needed to find an … Read more
Sometimes I get really disheartened because I have to do so much side-hustling while the “real job” of being a writer — the job that I’m am trained at, good at and want to do — feels like a shell game. I keep doing the work, but the target is always moving and it never seems to … Read more
“When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.” (Augusten Burroughs, writer) I don’t believe this entirely (in particular, you have to wonder if the writer had children), but I certainly understand the sentiment. The first time I had cancer, there were so many … Read more
It’s a beautiful sunny Sunday in April and this blog is officially neglected. The problem with neglecting something — like your student loans or cleaning the kitchen junk drawer— is that the longer you leave it, the more daunting it feels to come back to it, which makes it take even longer – so when … Read more