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Hello, beautiful people!

On May 16, 2007, after an X-ray, a CT, and a lot of down time in the ER, I was told that the cause of my breathing trouble appeared to be non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and they were going to move me upstairs.

It turned out to be Hodgkin’s, but still. Cancer doesn’t make anyone’s day better.

Fast forward 15.5 years, and I stopped emailing you weekly to focus on a new project.

(Yeah, a few things happened in between, but this is an email, not a memoir!)

I’m pleased to announce that the project is ready to come into the world (and that getting back to writing is on my hope-to-do list).

On the 17th anniversary of my preliminary diagnosis date, I will be launching a Kickstarter* for my new card deck, “How Not to Say Dumb Sh-t to Someone Dealing with Cancer.”

If you’re interested in checking it out, you can use this link to see the Kickstarter preview and sign up with them to get notified when the campaign goes live.

If you’d like to stay in the loop on other portions of this project (there’s an app in the works and other decks on deck haha), you can add yourself to this list just by clicking here. (That works from the email, not if you’re reading the email on the web.)

It’s been a wild ride putting this thing together. I’m pleased with how it turned out, I’ve gotten very good response from people who have seen it so far, and I’m hoping to make a lot of people’s lives a little bit better.

And hopefully I’ll start popping back in here in the fall. That’s the plan. We’ll see...

*Kickstarter is a crowdfunding platform for creative projects. As the creator, I build out my idea and let people pre-buy it, which gives me the money up front to fund its tangible creation. In other words, I don’t have to guess how many decks to have printed—they’re ordered. It will last three weeks, and you only get charged if enough orders are placed to meet my funding goal.

A photo

Two photos from a recent hike. The spring in the desert is just gorgeous!

Yours,

Heat