Print Issue: FIVE YEARS & COUNTING

FIVE YEARS & COUNTING, Feb / March 2023, Vol 8, No 1, 95 pages

For the first time ever, we’ve devoted an entire issue to showcasing the stories of people diagnosed five, ten, and twenty years ago! These are the stories that will inspire! This issue features deeply personal lessons learned about living life that extends well beyond cancer, from all different stages of diagnosis (from early stage and DCIS to Stage IV).

“Let this issue about survivorship bring you both smiles and tears. And when you turn the last page, I hope you feel not only more hopeful than when you first opened the cover, but that you also know you are loved, supported, and never walking this path alone.” - Roberta Lombardi, Founder and President of Infinite Strength, Inc. - our guest editor & cover star!

Contents:

I Want To Be You a poem by Pye Pajewski | Changing the Narrative by Silvana Langley | More Than a Decade Later by Amelia Elsbree McBryan | Doctor’s Orders by Carla Millsap | Finding Happiness Through Hardship by Caryn Sullivan | Life With You: In Three Parts by Dorothy Paredes | Diagnosis by Jodi Mollison | Sometimes/Maybe a poem by Dawn Flores | From One Cancer Pioneer to the Next by Aleah La Flair | Life is Too Short for Anything That is Not a Hell Yes by Amy Garlick | The Hate I Gave by Ashley Lequesne | There’s Only “After” Now by Rasee Govindani | Mommy’s Boobs are Different by Dory Kashin | The Green Mound a poem by Florence Moon | A Search for Purpose by Karla Stephens-Tolstoy | Listening Within by Kim Reiten | Time by Rachel Von Stratton-Kirk | My Momma is a Cancer Warrior by Renée Firato | When Two Worlds Collide by Roberta Lombardi | Smiling Through the Pain in Rose-Colored Glasses by Susan Danenberger | The Chrysalis by Tatiana Berger | One. Day. At. A. Time. a poem by Tina Conrad

PLUS: Guest Editor’s Note by Roberta Lombardi

Cover photo by Teresa Sullivan