Thank You

Dear readers of Breast Cancer is One Way to Look at Things,

I just want to say thank you for reading this blog and accompanying me these last seven months. Writing these posts has been a rich and powerful way to navigate this disease.

Moreover, writing about breast cancer has affirmed the role of writing in my life. Writing is how I make my way through the world.

Of course, sometimes I have wondered if this has been the best course — if I could or should have chosen some other path. Surely, every deep commitment also comes with doubt. In any case, I’m in my seventh decade. The deed is done.

Most writers are introverts. Most of us enjoy our solitude. But — honestly, truly — the solitary act of writing would be unbearably lonely if we did not also feel that we were reaching out to other people. If we did not feel, profoundly, that we were in communication not only with our best selves but with readers we consider to be our best friends and colleagues.

So you will probably see me again in your Inbox. I might have updates about breast cancer, although I hope not. I hope nothing too interesting happens to me again concerning this subject.

Breast Cancer is One Way to Look at Things can still be read from beginning to end on Medium and Substack. Later in the fall, I will revise and self-publish as a free Kindle.

In a year’s time, I have a book coming out called The Desert Dreams of Flying to the Moon: A Memoir of Space and Time (University of New Mexico Press, September, 2027). I may write and tell you about that. If anything really exciting happens to me — maybe a coati turns around and gives some good advice or another mountain lion appears outside my office window — I will certainly let you know.

This week I am in Bandelier National Monument in northern New Mexico, and I send a photo and my best from that spectacular landscape.

Love to you all,

Sharman