It’s been a little while since I wrote for Burnside. I’ve been busy writing a book, and now that the book is finished and published, I’d like to tell you a little bit about it. A few years ago I had cancer. It took me seven months from the time I started becoming unwell until I was finally diagnosed...

In July 2003, after seven months of a mystery illness, I was diagnosed with an aggressive form of Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. At stage 3B (there are only 4 stages, and B meant it had begun spreading around my body) the tumour in my chest was as big as a saucer. My treatment consisted of three months of chemotherapy...

I met Tammy about two years ago. We used to be neighbors, and my son and her eldest daughter caught the same bus to school every day. Tammy and I would often chat, strolling home from the bus stop. As it turned out we had a lot in common. Tammy, like me, was a wife, mother, a Christian and a cancer survivor. Tammy...