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Attention is the beginning of devotion.
Pocket Observatory is not-for-profit project offered to you for free through a Creative Commons license. The continuation of this work depends on donations from people like you.
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I'm writing about my experience as a cancer patient in America.
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Your donations help cover the compounding costs of cancer: therapy for my kids, medical bills, gas money for the people giving our kids rides, lost income from my freelance work, lotions for my raw, flaking skin and more!
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Hi, I'm Meg Conley
I am a researcher, writer, and caretaker. I create Pocket Observatory, a not-for-profit attention reclamation project. My work appears in places like Harper's Bazaar, The Guardian, BBC and NPR.
Currently, my observations are written as I navigate treatment for triple-negative breast cancer.
I’ll be writing here to remind myself of what I am at a molecular level - a person who gets to be alive right now. (Who I am seems too much to ask of myself or a god of entropy right now.) Context isn’t linear, so my writing won’t be either. I’ll mostly be writing about what I see out of the corner of my eye. It won't all be about cancer, but it will all be written by a woman with cancer. (That woman is me.)
When you read my writing, you’re taking the time to witness me. Thank you. We do what we can for each other, don’t we? And that’s enough. It has to be.
Other Places to Find My Work
Publications like Harper's Bazaar, Columbia Journalism Review, The Gloss, and Slate.
Books like Jessica Grose’s Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood, Katy Kelleher's The Ugly History of Beautiful Things and Pooja Lakshmin’s Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness (Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble Baths Not Included)
Podcasts like BBC Radio 4 The Coming Storm, Vox’s Today, Explained , NPR’s It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders and documentaries like The Rise and Fall of LulaRoe
Pocket Observatory by Meg Conley is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
