I’m a Woman Who Blogs
I was recently interviewed by Keris Stainton, a columnist at DollyMix (thought candy to stimulate your ladybrains).
Keris keeps a great book blog at Trashionista — worth checking out!
These are UK blogs … don’t ya just love how the internet pulls the breast cancer community across borders (and oceans)?
Anyway, Keris posed a question about my honesty … and questioned if I every worried about who was reading … here’s part of my response.
“Sometimes I do … when I was re-diagnosed, I wrote about it then heard from a local girlfriend that she’d read the news online — that freaked me out because I wasn’t ready for my community to know about my diagnosis. I think it is easy to assume that your readers are virtual strangers when in fact they can be the guy next door!”
Everyone else, head on over to Dollymix you want to read the entire interview.
September 22nd, 2007 at 7:05 pm
You know it’s true that we never who is reading what we talk about, what we say, but if this is a way to reach a mass audience…we have to go for it. Because there are hundreds and thousands of women who need to hear what we talk about. We may not want our “close others” to hear things this way but think of those who might have no one to talk to, to question…and the lives we might be saving. Crossing the world? We live in a wonderful time, that’s all I can say!!