Katie Weber found out she had brain cancer at age 23 and thought she was done with it, but it came back when she was 28, just a few weeks after her boyfriend of 8 years had proposed to her! The second journey with cancer has been a rough one and she figures if anything good can come out of it all, it's her responsibility to write it down! This is a book for any young person with cancer or a chronic illness, and for anyone who deals with life's big questions: Why are we here? How do we find meaning? Why do some people struggle with illness and others don't? When the possibility of death is put in front of your face, you start to look back on your life, intentionally or not. We all do this occasionally, but when death is staring you down, one way to take it on is to reflect on all of the blessings that your life has already brought you. Duhhh...I know...such a trite observation. But trite observations become trite fora reason: they are based in real human experiences that happen to many of us every day. And people lean on them in times of struggle, because their very triteness is what brings comfort: you are not alone. Others have been here before you. And they made it through well enough that a saying evolved around surviving that struggle. It's what the best art does. It taps into the universal human experience and expresses it. just. so. That's right, I said it. Trite sayings are art. In their own right. NOTE: Katie Weber is donating one-half of the proceeds from sales of "When Life Hands You Lemons..." to cancer research at Seattle Children's hospital.