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...
by Maggie Bruehl | Apr 8, 2024 | Cancer
In my book, Suspended: Living with Dying, I talk a lot about not only how we are handling our life-altering diagnosis but also about how others around us are. Just as we are unique, they also are, and no two situations are exactly alike. For example, I recently got an...
by Maggie Bruehl | Mar 18, 2024 | Cancer
Sure, I had been sick most of January and February. And he had just gotten out of a week at the hospital that I hadn’t known about. I guess I hadn’t seen him since before Christmas. But I hardly recognized him. He was a shadow of the man he had been. I...