Through the mists of morphine
and into the unknown
Liminal with Jennifer Steil
Award-winning author and ovarian cancer wrangler Dr. Jennifer Steil talks writing, reading, recurrence, and remission as well as life in the fertile territory between countries, sexualities, identities, cultures, languages, and homes.
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Handling the Truth
Thoughts prompted by Elizabeth Gilbert’s latest memoir, the hazards of memoir-writing while female, and how much of ourselves do we dare reveal?
Backstreets Buoy
We wander Paris's tiniest passageways, find the smallest house, the shortest street, and a novel Eiffel Tower souvenir. Also, a palliative care meltdown, the worst crèperie in Paris, and a podcast.
Into the lives of others
Fabulous humans visit us. A photography exhibit allows us to look beyond ourselves. And oh okay, despite my best intentions, I couldn't help adding just a few words about the Odyssey.
Looking back in anger
The blood test every woman should demand, a new podcast interview, and a few thoughts on my recent reading.
What Bastille Day means to me
Which is not what it means to the French
Waters within and without
We find the village pool, but Tim’s swimsuit offends the French
May my love for you survive me
My oncologist tells me she is running out of options. I work on how to live while dying.
Paris on fire
Too hot even to prepare for my death, I quest for coolness and sanity and discover shocking truths about French lakes.
Caesura
All treatment is put on hold until my kidneys recover. I distract myself with reading, humans, cinema, and cold places.
Listening to backtalk
I have the privilege of meeting superstar scholar Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw and hearing the stories behind her work on intersectionality. I also learn my body is failing fast.