The
Huffington Post is doing a project on young adult cancer survivors on its
Generation Why page. My first post can be found at the link below. This first
one is a little nontraditional (I cried while writing it), while the other
three that will be posted over the next few weeks will be in a more typical
essay format and will address some of the tough topics I've had to deal
with.
Also, as
a way of repaying the kindness bestowed upon me by the
First Descents organization this past summer, I wrote an essay about my
experience participating in one of its young adult cancer survivor kayaking
camps. When my kayak capsized at the base of a waterfall, I was more terrified
than I'd ever been in my life, and that's saying a lot! As I reflected on those
moments, once warm and dry again, I thought about how interesting it would be to
slow down those 60 seconds, to make a reader really feel like she'd been there
with me, in that kayak and a year earlier in the hospital.
The
result is an essay entitled, Exit, which will appear in Adventum Literary
Magazine's Winter/Spring 2013 Edition, available the first week of January at
Adventum Magazine: Current Issue.
It's
a pretty cool publication, which publishes only stories on outdoor adventures.
Reading the last edition made me want to go rock-climbing (but then I came to
my senses...)
