In August, 2008, I discovered the power of blogging. My life took an unexpected detour after a breast cancer diagnosis and I figured out pretty quickly how difficult it was to keep everyone informed, as I was constantly leaving people off lists or picking the wrong person out of my contact folder. So I created a blog just to organize information and provide a centralized location, but after one of those stuffy sounding list posts, I decided that I would dive a little, actually a lot, deeper.
I posted literally hundreds of entries, some quite dense and introspective, some not so much. There are pictures of my husband wearing my wig and my prosthesis side by side with dark ponderings about the anger and bitterness waiting just under the surface.
In the process of writing a paper for the Feminist Leadership Academy of Cincinnati, I reviewed all of those entries and realized that there might actually be some useful gems to save. So here I am, working on a new blog, wanting to share what I have learned, what I have missed and what continues to grow and change inside this newly altered cocoon of a body.
Apart from all this cancer talk, I am an Assistant Director at Women Writing for (a) Change. I do have some writing bona fides, including magazine feature writing and columns for local papers. I have had some poetry published both online and in print. Here is a link to samples of my writing. Early next year, an essay of mine will appear in a book about women in crisis. I'll add the details once they are officially released.
I blog, of course, here and on katie's little c as well as the Women Writing for (a) Change blog. It's truly difficult to shut me down (or up, as the case may be and usually is).
Apart from all this cancer talk, I am an Assistant Director at Women Writing for (a) Change. I do have some writing bona fides, including magazine feature writing and columns for local papers. I have had some poetry published both online and in print. Here is a link to samples of my writing. Early next year, an essay of mine will appear in a book about women in crisis. I'll add the details once they are officially released.
I blog, of course, here and on katie's little c as well as the Women Writing for (a) Change blog. It's truly difficult to shut me down (or up, as the case may be and usually is).
So look around, leave a comment if you want and, most of all, enjoy! Drop me a line by clicking HERE.
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