Chronic illness and injury has taught me—is still teaching me—patience. These days are not a consolation prize for what I didn’t win, for where I didn’t or couldn’t succeed, for a better life I might have had if only…They are my life. “Where do you see yourself in five or 10 years?” Erik asked as we […]
My husband hates talking about death, but I bring it up frequently. I hate keeping it as a shadow that follows us on sunny days. I want it out in the open. I want to take some of the darkness out of it. I am in the middle of my second breast cancer scare. Last […]
While my college and grad school friends tried to get pieces published and establish their careers, I played with my IV lines idly and watched the faces of the other women as they had mini consultations with our doctor. I was 23, and a newly minted Master of Fine Arts, when I left my family […]
