I'm a pisces, but I had cancer!

Hello friends and family, I hope you all are doing well. Things, like in most places still under lockdown, are pretty much the same over here.  I am still trying to do work. Greg is still trying to (and succeeding at) baking bread. I go for my treatments once every three weeks, and we go on walks and get to sit outside more as the weather gets nicer. but in general, we are in a vortex of time and a confine of space that in many ways, as I mentioned in my last post, is pretty similar to the last year of my life as a cancer patient. It's been this view, day in and day out: I did reach a pretty big milestone a few weeks back- a year since my diagnosis, or my cancerversary, as folks in the club like to call it. I wish I could say that Greg and I had a big old party and celebrated me still being alive, but if I'm being honest, I was in a funk about it all week. I thought a lot about the ambitious and productive person that I was a year ago, pre-illness.* I got angry reliving...

Hello dear friends and readers. These are strange, unsettling times. I am sending you all so so much love and strength, hoping you are doing your best as you cozy up at home, adjust to this new normal, and just generally slow down in the weeks and months ahead. Despite the news out of our fine city being bleak and the sounds of sirens being fairly persistent, we are doing okay over here. I am always working remotely, Greg's office has been closed for nearly two weeks, and will likely remain that way for the next month or two. With Greg about to be put on furlough, we will struggle a bit financially from this, but we are so so privileged to have a safe home, savings, a decent unemployment bill from the federal government, and family help if need be. We're spending our time cooking and making sourdough bread and watching TV and organizing and Facetiming and not getting any 'real' work done, but who cares: The homestead. Homemade sourdough pizza.  Chicken ...

My dear friends and (remaining) readers, I am so sorry it has been so long since my last post. It has been an incredibly busy month or so, during which I've had two more chemo treatments, received the best visitors (including a surprise one), celebrated multiple birthdays (including my own!) and one big brother's wedding in California, continued working/hanging out, and more recently, tried hard not to catch COVID-19! So consider this your photo bomb of the highlights from the last 40 some-odd days. I continued to be a cancer patient, while also heading to downtown Gotham for interviews for my dissertation research: I received a lovely care package from my lovely HS friend, Roxanne, which included a badass shirt, and forgot to take pictures of other lovely high school friends Kate and Katie visiting me at my second carbo chemo:    I received a copy of the first book with my name on the cover:  I celebrated Austin and Allix's little Milo's firs...