I’ve Had Cancer Twice

This is what I know about making your life matter.

The author in her beloved kitchen hatching up plans for bike rides and far-flung hikes.

It’s still strange to me that I’m a person who’s had cancer. Like many people, my unspoken belief about life was that it would go on and on. Cancer happens to other people.

It’s a singular shock when the news becomes your own. One that, for better and worse, permanently altered the trajectory of my life.