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Sometimes the best news just isn't good enough. My oncologist does her usual trick of dimming my hopes, but travel and work come to the rescue.
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Jennifer Steil
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Christmas Cytotoxins and other gifts
Christmas Eve chemo, some encouraging news, and the one thing your friend with cancer needs from you.
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A gift for you
As a reward for getting through the cancer update, I offer you an exclusive, fanciful escapist cream puff of a crime caper story.
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Spirit surges, reimagined rituals, and the threat to the gingerbread dinosaurs
Also, French hunters compete with cancer to make my day
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These subsurface parts
This week's Liminal features a guest post from my friend and multimedia artist Michiko Theurer about community, clunkiness, and how seemingly disparate…
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Join my new subscriber chat
A private space for us to converse and connect
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What we talk about when we talk about comfort books
What kinds of solace can literature offer in times of peril?
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Liminal with Jennifer Steil
Liminal with Jennifer Steil
Award-winning author and ovarian cancer wrangler Dr. Jennifer Steil talks writing, reading, recurrence, and remission as well as life in the fertile territory between countries, sexualities, identities, cultures, languages, and homes.
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