Writing to Heal

a guest post by Christine Shields Corrigan

I’m so pleased to be able to share this guest post from Christine Shields Corrigan, author of the critically-acclaimed book Again: Surviving Cancer Twice with Love and Lists. Thanks for making time for this, Christine!

I learned that words have the power to heal, when as a sophomore in high school in 1981, I was diagnosed and treated for Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Four days a week for three and a half months, my parents drove me from Staten Island to...