The Writing Process Blog Tour
Last year I was contacted by Betsy Barbour, a former co-worker whom I had not seen in over a decade. It turned out she was working with a good friend of my husband’s, and had been hearing about this...
View ArticleRight On Time
I wrote recently about having auditioned to participate in Nashville’s first production of Listen To Your Mother, a live staged reading of essays written by real people about motherhood. The event took...
View ArticleStyleBlueprint Fangirl
When I joined Unroll.me (one of the best apps ever), I unsubscribed myself from over 200 e-mail lists, newsletters and subscriptions in one fell swoop. I then had the option of choosing any...
View ArticleAvoiding Negative Self-Talk: Why the Phrase ‘F*ck Cancer’ Is No Longer in My...
You know that icky feeling you get in your stomach when you’re fighting with someone … when the conflict hangs over your head like a dark cloud, robbing you of feeling joy at any given point in your...
View ArticleThe Cure for Cancer? Why False Claims Are Dangerous
A couple of years ago, I published a blog on Huffington Post, imploring well-meaning (and sometimes not-so-well-meaning) folks to refrain from telling me what to do to “cure” my cancer. The premise of...
View ArticleH-T-W.
Some of you may of you be familiar with the game K-F-M (http://killfuckmarry.tumblr.com), where one is given three hypothetical options and has to pick who among them they’d, respectively, kill, f*ck,...
View ArticleAlive and kicking.
I haven’t posted any status updates since leaving the hospital a week ago, mostly because I’ve spent the week surrounded by my wonderful family, in my own home, and it has been extraordinary. But I...
View ArticleBuilding a Legacy (While Enjoying Every Sandwich)
In the fall of 2002, the great Warren Zevon made his final appearance on The David Letterman Show before dying of malignant mesothelioma, a rare and deadly form of lung cancer. When asked by Letterman...
View ArticleThe Elephant In The Room | The Danger of Trying to Control Perceptions
I was doing some holiday shopping with a close friend this past December, and ended up picking up an item I thought would look nice in our home … a sort of stuffed patchwork elephant comprised of...
View ArticleFour Fifty Three am. July 28th, 2015
One year ago today, at 4:53am, Joanna Lee Stanfield Montgomery drew her last breath. It feels like it happened yesterday and a million years ago, simultaneously. I miss her more than I can articulate…...
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