Letters to friends

Letters to friends while cancer: Angie B's List

<Ritual Preamble: You don’t have to read this stuff. You don’t have to respond. I know I’ve withdrawn from a lot of direct relation-ing, and I offer these missives as a way of knowing what’s goi...

Your gift cured the cancer blog

When you get cancer, do you still have to follow rules of etiquette or do you get a free pass? Do I have to explain why I’m not coming to Thanksgiving, the day after my second surgery, or do people...

Letters to friends during cancer: Any Pathway Will Do

Written February 5, 2026It has been three whole weeks since chemo 2 and I don’t actually know where those weeks went except that I thought I was weathering this chemotherapy thing well (I am, and.....

Letters to Friends while cancer: Angie B Unplugged

This is the first of several emails Angie wrote to her friends and family when cancer treatment got going. Written December 3, 2025, after two lumpectomy surgeries and months of cancer diagnosis an...