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...