International Women's Day is tomorrow! What are you doing?

(This newsletter is a companion to my podcast, A Breast Cancer Diary)

Shar is the woman that I call “my first flat friend,” because she’s the first flattie that I got to know as we arrived in the spring of 2023 at a retreat for flatties in rural Washington County Oregon where I live. I met another 30 first flat friends that weekend, but Shar was the very first. We were roommates at that retreat—literally—the huge bedroom …