I cried in a Zoom meeting. I’m not sure why. I mentioned I was overwhelmed and then the tears came. Luckily, it was a virtual hangout with colleagues (and friends) who are all writers. …

Hi, I’m Taryn, I was diagnosed with high-grade small cell neuroendocrine cancer in 2019, stage 3C. I only had a 7% chance of survival — but I’m still here! Now I run the social accounts @TheAntiCancerLife on TikTok and Instagram. The MOST common question I get is “My loved one…

We danced to “La Vie En Rose” and Smash Mouth’s “All-Star”. We served a three-tier red velvet cake that we never got to taste, sprung for the Mezcal to make smokey Negronis, and passed out to the season premiere of “Rick of Morty” in our Las Vegas hotel room. The…

What does it mean to go through cancer treatment? To have your organs stolen from you, your body poisoned and burned in the name of a “maybe cure” and to find yourself suddenly saddled with a dark passenger — waiting for your guard to come to down so it can…

Since my cancer diagnosis, I’ve been through a lot — surgery, port implantation, chemotherapy, radiation, brachytherapy, the list goes on. But last Friday was my very first bone marrow biopsy. Prior to this biopsy, I had heard horror stories about how painful it is. Luckily for me, my oncologist set…

Welcome to my Holiday Gift Guide. Going through cancer treatment — or any chronic illness sucks. During my treatment, a lot of people reached out and wanted to buy me gifts but didn’t know what I wanted or needed while battling cancer. Truthfully, I didn’t know either, I had never…

Back in the Spring of 2021 a lot of us booked late summer travel, thinking the world was headed back to normal. Instead, the Delta surge came along and ruined all of our plans. In mid-August, about two weeks before I was set to travel to Greece, several people mentioned…

I don’t like dwelling on things I’ve lost since being diagnosed with a rare and deadly cancer in 2019. It feels ungrateful to complain when so many cancer patients don’t get the privilege of living. I am lucky, I know this. But cancer does take a toll. …

My journey to finding God, after cancer. Since being diagnosed with a rare and deadly cancer in fall 2019 (high-grade small cell neuroendocrine Stage 3C), I have written extensively about the lifestyle changes I’ve made around food, diet and exercise. …