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2 Percent is for Milk, Not Cancer Funding
This post originally appeared in Anna Rachnel’s excellent Cancer Culture Chronicles. I was shocked when I found out how little research money is going to metastatic Stage IV cancer: two percent....
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Why Is Everyone So Honked Off at Komen?
“For everyone to whom much is given, of him shall much be required.” — Luke 12:48 First, apologies for the exaggeration in that linkbait title. Obviously not every single person in the world is mad...
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Tangled Up In Pink
I’ve always loved fall, particularly October, even though in recent years it’s become tinged with sadness. My mom died on October 1, 2003, and my dad’s birthday was October 13; this year, he would have...
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A Death in the Family
Last May I had the pleasure of attending the first-ever ArtBra KC event in Kansas City. All of the models either had been or were still being treated for breast cancer, including my friend Pam Van...
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What Survives of Us
Pam and me at my book launch party, September 2010 “What will survive of us is love.” -Philip Larkin Pam broke the news on December 9th, over dinner at our house for an early Christmas celebration. She...
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Time Out
I just got back from a brief vacation in the Black Hills and had no intention of blogging about it until Nancy Stordahl, who blogs at Nancy’s Point, asked me if I was going to and I thought, “Why...
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Tangled Up In Pink
(Editor’s note: This is a repost of something I originally wrote two years ago. Some things have changed since then; Lionhearted advocate Rachel Cheetham Moro, who was still using the pseudonym Rachel...
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525,600 Minutes
(Editor’s note: Today is the second anniversary of my friend Pam’s death from metastatic breast cancer. This post originally ran in April 2013.) This picture is from October, 2011, when my husband...
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What Survives of Us
Pam and me at my book launch party, September 2010 (Editor’s note: Watching “Being Mortal” on PBS last night inspired me to repost this June 2012 post about my friend Pam. She controlled the end of her...
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