The shrill ring of a phone blares into my consciousness and it takes a moment for me to register that it’s mine. After ten weeks in Africa, I got used to life without my electronic crutch. The w...
In July 2010, I went from being a 25-year-old-living-it-up-in-the-city to a role I hadn’t even briefly imagined for myself: cancer patient. Sitting in the doctor’s office on that fateful day, I ...