Story, overheard conversation #1

There once was an East European Jewish woman who had survived the concentration camps and immigrated to the US. She married, had three sons,...

In Memorium

[photo by Terry Armour] How can a 36-year-old die of colon cancer? Chicago lost journalist Carlos Hernandez Gomez Jan. 17. Peter Sagal, host...

January 2010: Cancer Bitch discovers foot straps

Again I am clueless even though I get as much instruction as everyone else. At rowing practice recently I realized, O, the straps are suppos...

Wealth can make you optimistic and healthy, or is it vice versa?

Here comes another study about attitude and health, this time reported in the journal Circulation, and then in the Washington Post . The hap...

Disparity in full

I just found a link to the entire Sinai Urban Health Institute study on the widening disparity in health between blacks and whites in Chi...

Temptation

I can resist everything but temptation, St. Oscar Wilde told us. How true, how true. But here is a list of things that I was exposed to in t...

Triangle

Cancer Bitch is slightly traumatized (if that's not an oxymoron). She admits she did gain 30 pounds in her 40s, but she thought she was ...

Thanks, Time Out

In the current issue of Time Out Chicago, Jonathan Messinger writes: Best book for someone who likes the idea of the Oprah Book Club but thi...