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Madeleine & Me
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|February 2019
My books are about faith and literature. One of them might save my life.

I glanced warily at the iv bag hanging from the pole in my in-fusion bay. “Isn’t that the poison symbol?” I asked the nurse. He had donned a full gown, mask and gloves to hook up the chemotherapy drugs now coursing through my system.
“Yep,” he said. “We’re trained to handle these drugs carefully.”
“So I’m being poisoned,” I said, trying to joke.
“Basically.” He smiled, but his eyes were sad. “I’m sorry.”
When he left, I took a ragged breath, scared and angry. This was not where I wanted to be.
A year ago, life had been full. Sycamore Creek Church, the United Methodist congregation where my husband, Tom, serves as pastor in Lansing, Michigan, was thriving. Our two boys, ages four and seven, made for a lively household. I’d been offered the fantastic opportunity to write A Light So Lovely, a biography about Madeleine L’Engle, whom I’d long admired and who died in 2007. Her books for children, teens and adults sold in the tens of millions—most famously the Newbery Medal–winner A Wrinkle in Time, which in early 2018 became a Disney blockbuster. That same fall, Madeleine would’ve turned 100. It was a great year for a book about her spiritual legacy.
Then in May 2018, just as final revisions for the manuscript were due, I was diagnosed with Stage I breast cancer. “You’re looking at a left mastectomy,” my doctor told me. “I’d be surprised if you need chemo or radiation. Overall, a good prognosis.”
But things had not gone as expected. In a matter of weeks, my full and energizing life had collapsed into one frightening imperative: Survive.
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