Badass Is Her Middle Name

The best thing you will do for yourself all day is to spend the half-hour, hour, half-day or however long it takes you to read the eight posts Abigail Henderson has made so far to her brand-new blog, Hope Is My Middle Name.

Abby is a local musican, most recently of the Gaslights, who was diagnosed a few weeks ago with stage III inflammatory breast cancer. She’s also a fighter, a warrior, a GODDAMN BARBARIAN with whom cancer will regret ever having tangled. And she’s a fantastic writer, the kind whose inspired, hilarious and poignant prose will change you in the moment and leave you changed indefinitely. …