What is Good Marrow?
I have been doing two things for the last ten years— Working as a not-rich screenwriter in Hollywood and trading volleys with a leukemia diagnosis (ALL).
After three occurrences, two bone marrow transplants, a handful of surgeries, and some fresh squeezed CAR-T cells pumping through my veins, I have realized that perhaps my life is the story that I should be focusing on.
Even in its absence, cancer is a strangely unshakeable thing. It has led me to moments of joy, sorrow, and what a doctor might call “generalized” confusion.
If you are like me and don’t have a support group or a therapist (I know, I know) or a TV-perfect best friend who will endlessly listen to the elliptical cancer-related thoughts bouncing around your head… Then maybe you can find some solace here.
It won’t be all doom and gloom. And I’d like to think it‘s not just for cancer patients.
Published weekly on Tuesdays, the newsletter takes a string-theory approach to the intersections of cancer and relationships, movies, music, NBA basketball (big Bulls fan), food (RIP my ability to eat seafood), race (proudly half-Chinese), and a grab bag of topical happenings, convenient calendar events, and/or whatever throughline ties it all together that week.
If you like your prose with equal parts hope and melancholy and written in a style that assorted lit agents have called “lyrical”— I’d say you’ve come to the right place. Cancer or no-cancer, you can always read for the vibes. I get it, sometimes a jolt of life or death can be reorienting.
However you got here, I hope you subscribe!
I’ve Spent Enough Money On Cancer— Do I Have To Pay For This Too?
For now, no. But the dream would be— if you want to.
Paid posts may come at a later date, but for now sharing my work is just as appreciated.
Good Marrow is an attempt at healing so if you really, really like what you’ve read, you can pledge to become a future paid subscription below. You won’t get charged until I enable payments and I will make sure to let everyone know when I do. Trust me, it will be a big day for me.
