title: Writing Out the Storm: Reading and Writing Your Way Through Serious Illness or Injury
author:  Barbara Abercrombie 
description: Ignore the title, which is bad. It's okay, even, to ignore the writing exercises. Barbara Abercrombie's Writing Out the Storm: Reading and Writing Your Way Through Serious Illness or Injury is a moving, unsentimental portrait of the author with breast cancer, as she navigates her fear of death and love of writing with intelligence and grace; it's a worthwhile book for anyone who's ever thought about writing or thought about sickness. With excerpts from the famous (Raymond Carver, Andre Dubus, Gilda Radner) and the un- (a Spanish-speaking woman who distances herself from her cancer by only writing about it in English), Abercrombie, who teaches in the UCLA Extension Writer's Program, shows how others have dealt with mortal issues and how "nothing can heal the spirit like creativity and faith."<br />Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: NOW SAY YOU’RE SORRY
  
   **A REESE CLAYTON AND EMERSON LAKE NOVEL**
  
  BARBARA FOURNIER
  
  The characters and events in this book are a work of fiction. Names, places
  and incidents are the product of the authors imagination. Any similarity to
  real persons living or dead
  
  is coincidental and not intended by the author.
  
  Copyright © 2021 Barbara Fournier
  
  All rights reserved
  
  Cover and interior design by Caroline Teagle Johnson
  
  ISBN: 978-1-7366109-0-9 E-Pub
  
  ISBN: 978-1-7366109-1-6 Paperback
  
  ISBN: 978-1-7366109-2-3 Hardcover
  
   **DEDICATION**
  
  This book is dedicated to those family members we lost during the COVID-19
  pandemic beginning in March of 2020.
  
  My brother Richard Biittig. Just nine days later, his wife Barbara Biittig
  
  My nephew Robert Biittig. His sister, (my niece) Lori Biittig Warner shortly
  after.
  
  My sister-in-law Millie Biittig
  
  My sister-in-law Carolyn Biittig
  
  My brother-in-law’s mom Jean Mieczkowski
  
  May you Rest in Peace
  
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   **CHAPTER 1**
  
  I’m to