Last week, I listened to a conversation on Kate Bowler's podcast, Everything Happens. Bowler and her guest, Suleika Jaouad (author of Between Two Kingdoms ), who were both diagnosed with different types of cancer in their early 30s and early 20s, respectively. They discuss what it's like to live in a perpetual waiting room, waiting for the next thing (scan, biopsy, treatment, etc.) before you feel like you can make any solid plans. What I took away was the need to make plans to live my life, despite the health uncertainty: plan that trip, pursue that project, dream about something I want to do. Here are some quotations that struck me: Suleika: " I learned right before my book tour that there was a possibility I was going to have a third [bone marrow] transplant over the summer. And when you get news like that, there’s a way in which you just become suspended in a waiting room . And I waited to make any plans for the summer, waited to commit to trips, thinking this may or...