Posts Tagged ‘cancer’

When a Fault Maybe Isn’t

Posted on: January 24th, 2019 by Jennifer Bryon Owen

“Jennifer reads too many library books” wasn’t the only comment my elementary school teachers regularly wrote on my report cards. The other was “Jennifer talks too much.” I absorbed these comments as failures. But, through the intervening years when these comments resurfaced, I gradually decided what they wrote was not what they meant. One can… Read more

Season of Thanksgiving and Joy–with a Twist

Posted on: December 7th, 2018 by Jennifer Bryon Owen

It was the day before Thanksgiving. She introduced herself, and with a startled look said, “You don’t look XX-years-old.” Then she locked her huge brown eyes onto my small hazel ones. “It’s a baby tumor.” The oncology surgeon let that sink in and repeated it several times. With that, I was ushered into the world… Read more