Eva Moon Blog: Moonshine Chronicles

Eva Moon Blog: Moonshine Chronicles

Eva Moon blog: book reviews, humor, life lessons, BRCA and hereditary cancer commentary, music, bitching, and more. Includes repostings of her Huffington Post writing too. Have a suggestion for a topic you’d like me to tackle? Contact me! Rusty Hospitality by...
Growing Feathers

Writing

Author, Eva Moon Whether it’s a novel, a song, a play, or a film, author Eva Moon is fascinated by those moments when you must leap into the unknown without knowing whether you’ll crash or grow wings. Pinocchio’s Guide to the End of the World “As...

OMG! I’m gonna die!

Sitting in the open door of the airplane. Nearly fourteen thousand feet below my dangling toes, the lovely Washington coast is a green and blue abstract. I know I am going to die. And I couldn’t be happier. From the time we first encounter death – usually the...

A difficult gift to a child

I am waiting for bad news. Or good news. It’s not something I’m very good at – waiting. I can’t just put things I’m worried about out of my mind and get on with the day. What I’m waiting for is a test result. In a week or so, my 29-year-old son will learn if he...
If I could turn back time

If I could turn back time

If I could turn back time and alter the roll of the genetic dice that gave me the BRCA1 mutation — never experience agonies of fear waiting for biopsy results, not face the wrenching decision to give up my breasts and ovaries, endure 22 hours of surgeries, months of...