Showers
The first shower after surgery isn’t about getting clean. It’s about control. I don’t remember the exact day, just that the world had become measured in stitches
The Crooked Fence
When we moved to Colorado in 2020, I decided our place needed a name. I’d grown up watching TV ranches where homes had identities, Southfork, Shiloh, the Ponderosa, and I wanted that same sense of belonging.
Saved By Cancer
When people hear the title of my memoir—Saved by Cancer—they pause, waiting for the punch line. Cancer doesn’t save people, they think. It breaks them. It takes things.
