Saying Hello to My Readers

Hey all,

You’ll get this on email if you’re signed up for my Medium list. If not, you might click on my icon or face or button or whatever tiny headshot tells you that I wrote something new.

It’s just a note. Nothing groundbreaking.

I haven’t been writing on Medium much in the last year. I went through six months of chemo. It sucked. I hated every second of it. My partner (life, not business) is still battling leukemia. It’s been a long road, and it continues. All in all, it’s just a shit season of life. In the past, I have taken to keyboard or paper to process these types of chapters. But this one feels different. I can’t seem to chronicle it week to week. It’s all been too intense. It pierces the heart.

I write to say hello and send my best wishes. It’s an odd time in the world, and I hope the year is off to a good start on your end. I am beginning to get back to life. Stretching at the gym. Sitting at the cafe. Dusting off what seem like steel cobwebs. This too shall pass, I know. But pass it has not. We persist. And I remind myself daily how lucky we are to be alive.

Thanks for following, if you have. If not, no worries. We’re all inundated daily with constant stories. Most of it is nonsense. But Medium has always been a special place for me. So I will return soon.

Big hug from New York. Well, Hoboken at the moment.

JVG