Aquittal and mistrial for John Edwards

John Edwards, the worst-behaving spouse of a person with breast cancer, was aquitted today on one count; a mistrial was declared on the oth...

Direct from the New York (Cancer) Times

(all the cancer news that fits) Cancer, at Age 23 This video series is about life. But life with cancer. “Since the diagnosis, my life has b...

Lakewood & Byron, Wrigleyville, Chicago

Our well-traveled poppies have bloomed. They started out in Litchfield, Illinois, then a few plants went to Gary, Indiana, and now they'...

Embrace Your Allergies!

The New York Times refers us to Psychology Today to "The Mysterious Case of the Vanishing Genius, " Margie Profet (pictured above)...

Au Temps Perdu

illustration: Arthur Rackham I am in Iowa City, where many years ago (many many) I was a graduate student in fiction in the famed Iowa Write...

Another reason to exercise regularly...

Those nice researchers at the Kinsey Institute found what the marketing folks would call "value added." Thanks, Dawn Turner Trice ...

Inquiry: Block cancer center

Fellow cancer folk: Have you been treated at the  Block Center for Integrative Cancer Treatment  in Skokie? A friend of a friend in Californ...