Children

I was corresponding back and forth in the comments section of the Elizabeth Edwards post about selfishness, having children, not having chil...

Attention, bloggers

More media queries, for current and former bloggers: If you live and work in the Chicago area and used to blog, but don't anymore, and w...

Do you have Stage 4 breast cancer?

If so, and you're willing to talk to a New York Times reporter, read on: Roni Rabin (New York Times) Email: query-tc6@helpareporter.com ...

Elizabeth Edwards

What to say about Elizabeth Edwards? She tried to help others with cancer, and to raise funds for research. While her husband was running as...

The Adventures of Snow Bitch

I made my second snow person ever today. I'll post a better picture tomorrow but for now, here she is.

The second day of Chanukah

For those of you who are still eating Thanksgiving leftovers, it may come to you as a shock that Chanukah started last night. It's early...

A blog, a blog, why a blog?

[Venus with a Mirror by Titian] I just looked at this blog with my picture on it and thought, What in the world am I doing? Am I still runni...

Cancers R Us

In the Nov. 8 New Yorker Steven Shapin has an interesting review of “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer” by Siddhartha Mukh...

Light-headed

Tonight at rowing practice (indoors) we were to row hard for one minute, then not as hard for one minute, for a total of 40 minutes. After 2...

Etiquette

[Hitchens photo from Vanity Fair, by Jonas Fredwell Karlsson] My friend S sent me the link to this post from D.G. Meyers , author of The Ele...

Should we have names?

I'm at a nonfiction writers' conference and all the buzz today was about a panel with David Shields that focused on his book, Realit...

Personal tragedy pay$

I am often critical of Komen and once again I offer an apologia when I mention something good about it. The organization has a scholarship f...

50 million

I just found out about this site . Some of us are lucky enough to be insured. According to a recent U.S. Census report , more than 50 millio...

Cancer Bitch in the news

It's hard to complain about Pinktober (well--I want to complain about that neologism) when I'm one of the beneficiaries. The Trib p...

For people with Stage 4

If you have Stage 4, consider taking part in this study. The Cancer Support Community is conducting research to learn more about life after ...

Metastatic awareness day

[Info on image here . It's official. Today's the federally-designated day to be aware of breast cancer metastasis. You could argue t...

Eat your vegetables

A new study shows that African-American women who ate more vegetables--especially broccoli, mustard and collard greens and cabbage--were les...

Seen any good scars lately?

[Catherine Money's photo of her mother, "Survivor," "One in Eight: Pasadena (CA) Portraits"] Devon Williams had a ma...

Rowing on the radio

[Rowing on the lovely Chicago River. WBEZ photo by Kyle Weaver] Our Recovery on Water rowing team was featured on Chicago Public Radio toda...

Seven hours in the cinema

What question , Tony used to ask, is this the answer to ? I guess you're thinking, O, that's what they do on Jeopardy. But Tony was ...

Using the cancer card

I was riding my bike to the Belmont L and had stopped at the light at Belmont and Sheffield. I felt someone bump against my basket. Some guy...

Mysterious Blue Lights

[Andrew Nelles photo} Lately I noticed that some buildings in the Loop had blue lights on top and I couldn't figure out why. It couldn...

For those who need nipples...

[reconstructed breasts, no nipples yet, photo from smartplasticsurgery.com] Serena Lander reports that she will be back in Chicago Oct. 15 ...

Christopher Hitchens, still God-free

[Christopher Hitchens, AP photo] I'm dying, and so are you, Hitchens told his audience in Alabama. His esophageal cancer has metastasize...

apres Yom Kippur

So it is the next day, four hours after the nine-year-old at our break-fast blew the shofar to signal the end of the fast. I suppose we are ...

Woman with stage 4 breast cancer says landlord unfair

[Mary Ellen Hintz, photo by Brian Cassella, Chicago Tribune] The Trib has shrunk physically--the pages became narrower some years ago--and i...

In today's Trib

1. Mammograms may not reveal tumors in women under 50 because the tumors and dense breast tissue show up as the same color. Read Trib story ...

What is "the suburbs"?

What is Detroit? sparked some comment on Facebook. Where did my vision of Detroit come from? Why do I get to have it and spread it? The ques...

Lke me, like me, like me

O what is wrong with me? I heard that a longtime friend's daughter had moved to town and I want to invite her to come over to break the ...

What is Detroit?

[ Fisher Body Plant No. 21, Detroit, Sean Hemmerle, Time ] Yesterday's Trib had an op-ed by a mayoral wannabe from 1971. He began: Chic...

Elevated

I was in the elevator at the Fancy Hospital Medical Building after my phototherapy session, which has really helped alleviate the itching/bu...

Have you made a big change?

O, how they want us to have had epiphanies, shifts, turnabouts, makeovers, changeovers and on and on. If you happen to be one of the people ...

The Big C How Pretty Cancer Is

God help us! I just watched Showtime's The Big C online while sitting in my bed and breakfast room on State Street in downtown Jackson,...

One-Breasted Tour Through Dixie

I am so sad because I'm leaving the South on Tuesday. I'm in Selma tonight, having spent the afternoon in the Reform temple with a v...

Type 2014A...

in the folktale roster is the "That's good, that's bad" formula story. I found out that it did not originate with my cous...

Leah Siegel

I usually don't have two deaths in a row, but this was just published today, and sent to me by a good friend of Leah's. She was dia...

But I date myself...

The clock radio went off this morning and soon a notice came on about an upcoming special on the life of Daniel Schorr , who died last week ...

The drug you can never quit

My dear friend D read about my nausea when I ran out of Effexor, and sent me this helpful link to Crazy Meds. CM lists: Effexor's Cons...

Cooling from a meltdown

[or heating up together] Meltdown is the topic of a blog carnival sponsored by Chronic Babe , so if you go there after July 27, you'll ...