Nobody Likes Blago--Not Even Komen

Maybe Blago will keep sliding away until he's gone from the the frame. The Dallas Morning News blog tells us that Susan G. Komen for th...

My Achilles' heel

Ladies, don't throw away the removable pocket of your mastectomy camisole! You can use it to cover your toes when you get your foot in a...

My book cover

On the cover is a photo of a specially-made Cancer Bitch. I'm told it's small and somehow it's a whistle--I think if you take of...

Comet

Today I was rushing to meet an editing client at 2pm when L called. He said, I have bad news. He told me that our good friends' son was ...

Amazon

This is a painting of Diana, goddess of the hunt, not quite an Amazon, but she could pass. According to legend the Amazons cut or burned of...

In Grant Park

It was nice, I tell people. Yes, it was nice. That's not what they want to hear. They want to hear that the Obama rally in Grant Park o...

Studs

Friday afternoon I was walking to the main library downtown and thought about the time, years ago, I was in the library and this guy came up...

Town Hall

Fancy Hospital had its annual Town Hall meeting last week on breast cancer. Meaning, anyone could come and ask questions of a panel of exper...

Stop the Presses!!

Today the Tribune informed us (this being Holy Holy Pink Breast Cancer Month) that black women in Chicago die more often of breast cancer t...

Dreaming of Cancer

The woman asked if I dreamed about cancer. She does. She is four years younger than I am, was diagnosed with the same stage (2A--the A makes...

Les Sourcils

One thing--really, two things--that have not come back all the way since chemo are my eyebrows. They had been thinning out as I'd gotten...

Half Full

I organized a successful fundraiser last night but I keep looking at the dark side: OK, we raised about $7,000 or more, but my friend Maddy ...

Praise the Lord & Pass the Ammunition

Now seems like a good time to quote from Mark Twain's War Prayer, published posthumously: "'O Lord our Father, our young patrio...

Cancer Bitch to emcee at Obama FUNdraiser

Cancer Bitch aka S.L. Wisenberg will MC at a literary fundraiser for Barack Obama, Wednesday, Oct. 15, at the Chopin Theatre, 1543 W. Divisi...

The Cab Driver/The Persistence of Cancer

I went to T's house to watch the veep debates. This was my first visit to her house, the first time I'd done anything social with he...

Tashlich, Casting Sins

Above: Tashlich in Poughkeepsie. Click to enlarge. Yesterday after services we went to the lake to symbolically cast our sins into the water...

The New Year

This is the Gaon (Genius) of Vilna, allegedly my ancestor It is the new year for us Hebrews (as we were called at Ellis Island) or Israelite...

Update: the Search for Organic Whey Powder

Bovine growth hormones: Does she or doesn't she? I wrote quite a while back about my search for protein powder without soy or rBGH --rec...

Back in the Saddle

Ceci n'est pas une Cancer Bitch. Friday I was riding my bike to French yoga at the Alliance Francaise . (It's yoga with instructions...

For the Girl Who Has Everything...

LINK: I found these (above link) while I was looking for something else. A Chicago Daily News columnist, Sidney J. Harris, used to write occ...

Wind and Water

It rained here in Chicago for almost two days straight, flooding some neighborhoods and suburbs and I kept thinking that this is what it...

This is not a picture of Ikea.

Everyone thinks that Dante said the lowest rung in hell is reserved for the neutrals. Actually, he said something much subtler than that. B...

This Mortal Coil

So I'm filling out the marketing questionnaire for The Adventures of Cancer Bitch. This means I'm listing possible reviewers and int...

Songs of the 60s

I listened to the conventions. I didn't watch much of the Dems on TV, except for one night at an Obama party. I've been listening to...

Things happen/Origin of the specious

Heather Bruce , Sarah Palin's older sister, with whom Bristol Palin lived last spring, said that Bristol is "just a sweet girl and ...

New Idea for Prosthetic Breast/Sarah Palin

No, the fish isn't the new prosthetic breast. The fish has to do with the next paragraph. As Cancer Bitch, I feel obliged to bring you t...

War Against the Squirrels

When I first came to the Midwest (never having heard the term "Midwest" and thinking that Chicago was the East, near New York, but...

Property

I dreamed last night I told Mayor Daley that I would pay more property taxes in order to provide hot water and shelter for everyone. (In the...

The Question of Subject

If this is a cancer blog, and moreover, a breast cancer blog, then it should be about breast cancer, should it not? But if it is a blog that...

I Have Been Breathing Tile

So now we are living in this old house that is older than many things in this world, a house that was standing probably looking much like it...

In the Obits

The Tribune's top obit today is of a woman born in 1914 in Chicago of Czechoslovakian immigrants. She had a lifetime of social work, bot...

No, YOU move beyond cancer

Nota bene: a brief article in the New York Times Science section, "Having Cancer, and Finding a Personality," by Ruth Pennebaker....

Hemmed In: a Note from Cancer Bitch

The Fifty Foot Blogger, you may have noticed, has been guest-blogging and has graciously assented to continue for a while. I will be poking ...