Just shy of a month from my cancer diagnosis, I was assigned a slot for the operation: a state-of-the-art robotically assisted total hysterectomy. A friend who works in hospitals advised treating the process as a long-haul flight: pack snacks, earplugs and eye mask, and prepare to be bored. Very bored.
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Rotten Fruit
You think you’re fine and healthy, going on 36km bike rides, lifting weights, eating broccoli, going to ballet class, in such good shape for a 55-year-old woman, and then, suddenly, you’re not.
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Alone in Málaga
In my late thirties, I had the romantic aspiration that on my fortieth birthday, my soulmate would take me to Venice, where I had not yet been.
Keeping up with my telephone
And so, another year. To be honest, 2000 doesn’t seem that long ago to me, but between then and now, people have been born, learned to talk, completed their education and started real jobs that might well pay more than mine. The offspring of friends, who were babies just yesterday,…