First off: bronchitis has settled very deeply into my lungs. Neither of my doctors can see me today, so it is time for Urgent Care. I am never supposed to get infections while on chemo. I have had pneumonia before without knowing it.
I have also sadly decided that I am going to stop trying to re-join my old writing group that meets at Orchard Valley Coffee in Campbell. The self-appointed "gatekeeper" is so problematic at this point that I am tired of trying. I am sorry he hoards every activity we ever shared. There was no reason for me to have to struggle to find a dance community, another writing group, etc....it happened only because he decided to try and hurt me as deeply as he could. I think the person he really wants to hurt is not me, which I think is too often the case. We hurt in others what we hate in ourselves.
I do have my old writing group I have been in for years, so that is a blessing. I am glad they still wanted me back.
My name is Joan McMillan and this blog is, as Emily Dickinson says, "my letter to the world." I am currently working on a nonfiction book about the murder of a young woman, Asha Veil, born Joanna Dragunowicz, and her unborn daughter, Anina, on September 9, 2006. My book is meant to honor her life and illuminate the need to create a safer world for women and children.
To read an excerpt from the book, please click on the following link:
ashaveilbook.blogspot.com
An excerpt from The Pleasure Palace, my romantic comedy, can be found here:
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