by Maggie Bruehl | Aug 27, 2024 | Cancer
“How Are You Doing?” It’s such a simple question…until it is no longer simple. People like me get caught up in the complexity. Trying to read the face of the asker, we wonder what they really want to know. A sliding scale from one to ten? Physically or emotionally?...
by Maggie Bruehl | Aug 22, 2024 | Cancer
There is a moment between the adrenaline of diagnosis and the weariness of treatment when the reality of our disease sets in. I remember my experience. We had been to an oncologist, and he explained my precursor condition for multiple myeloma. I asked him to write it...
by Maggie Bruehl | Aug 6, 2024 | News
What an honor – the Word Weaver group I have been a part of for years led off their August edition of their online publication with a short article I wrote! https://preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webview/456046/128464831434982674 This group has been an...
by Maggie Bruehl | Aug 2, 2024 | Cancer
I’ve been quiet lately, as life has given me room to be pensive. It’s hot in Florida, and just like northerners stay inside during the winter, Floridians stay inside during the summer. I’ve gotten a lot of cleaning and organizing done and even had...
by Maggie Bruehl | Jul 6, 2024 | Cancer
My heart froze with the phone still in my hand. The text was from a dear friend of mine, a presenter at my first writer’s conference. A mentor of my poetry, he endorsed my second book. Now, he texts that he’s been diagnosed with bone and blood cancer. He’s just at the...
