Alison Conklin on Photography, Bonus Days Magazine, and Finding Beauty in the Hard Parts
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On this episode of the Lehigh Valley with Love Podcast, we sit down with photographer and storyteller Alison Conklin, the publisher of Bonus Days Magazine, to talk about what it means to keep creating, even in the middle of the hardest seasons of life.
Recorded at Dan’s Camera City, this conversation starts with the way Alison sees the world through a lens and how “who you are personally is like your power.” From there, she shares the moment her health story took a sharp turn: “he told me in July that I had six months to live,” and what happened next as she faced the reality of needing a heart transplant.
Alison talks candidly about the waiting, the fear, and the pace of it all, including the shock of how fast things moved once she was listed. But the story doesn’t stop at survival. It turns into purpose and into print.
That’s where Bonus Days Magazine comes in, a print magazine centered on “all transplants and chronic illness,” created to “tell these stories that are not toxic positive.” Alison’s not pretending it’s easy: “not gonna tell you it’s all sunshine and rainbows.” She makes space for nuance too: “two things can be very true at the same time”… and sometimes, “just existing is enough.”
LINKS
Bonus Days Magazine: https://www.bonusdaysmag.com/
Alison Conklin: https://www.alisonconklin.com/
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