While my Child Battles Cancer, I am Learning to Live Without Hope & Without Fear

J.J. Duncan
7 min readAug 4, 2020

How does one cope when nothing is going your way?

For as long as forever, it seems, when it comes time to talk about “how” to approach life, it quickly devolves into a regurgitation of the old optimism verses pessimism tack. Which are you? Glass half full? Half empty? Pick one!

Spoiler alert: I’ve learned to thread that needle.

I’ve learned to not live in constant fear. This sounds good, right? Sounds like I’ve listened to all the sages of

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J.J. Duncan

I make TV. I’m a mom & a wife-of-a-wife. I attempt badassery daily - "attempt" being the key word. At times I am clever.