This has been a big month for Julia Gari Weiss, as her first book "Being Human" was just published by Thought Catalog. The book is an expansive, heart wrenching account of the speaker's mother struggling with cancer, what it means to be human, and yet, how humans are often treated inhumanely by each other. I'm proud of Weiss, because her words are honest. Her words are an accomplishment. 

I was lucky enough to speak to her about the making of her book: