Gallery

This is Happily Married , (c) by the artist, Margo Rivera-Weiss , and is rendered in India ink and multiple layers of watercolor.

Good News/Not Me; The Other Guy

The good news is that a solvent-free, less toxic chemo drug can add seven months to the lives of women with metastatic breast cancer, compar...

Mortality Pokes Its Nose in Our Lives Yet Again

On left: X-ray showing a pacemaker L had to wear a Holter monitor for a full day last week to test for arrhythmia. The cardiologist told hi...

Don't throw that old bra away!

Above is a fabric piece, In Memory of My Breasts, by Marcia Ginsberg , using old bras. It is part of an exhibit, The Healing Power of Art, ...

Walk this way

Our podiatrist has drilled it into us that walking barefoot is Bad, and so we hardly ever do (except in sand, that's OK). So I have been...

Packs and groups and moots

Saturday we went to a memorial luncheon for a friend of L from work. She was amazingly competent, sharply witty, knowledgeable and patient, ...

Neuropathy

And now a moment for another disease... This week happens to be National Neuropathy Week. I have a friend who has multifocal motor neuropa...

It is/It isn't about the Hair

This is my second post about Farrah Fawcett. Who woulda thunk it? I was struck by recent reports about her hair. People magazine tells us: A...

Early Detection = Pound of Cure?

I was in the Ford dealership waiting room in Iowa City and came upon Wired magazine from January. The cover story showed a new way of getti...

The Cancer No One Talks About

It used to be no one dared speak its name--it was maybe, in an act of boldness, referred to the Big C. And to mention breast cancer--well, t...

The Bitch on 'BEZ

An interview with me is supposed to be on Chicago Public Radio, WBEZ-FM, on Wed. morning, starting at about 9:30. http://www.chicagopublicra...