About 30% of people diagnosed with breast cancer at any stage will develop distal metastasis. I am one.
I read this post over at Guerrilla Aging – Navigating the Third Half of Life and I am reposting it here with the permission of both the author and the blog owner. Although I’m still in my fifties, I’ve already been introduced to the curbs that are inexplicably higher than they...
I did my best, it wasn’t much I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch I’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you And even though it all went wrong I’ll stand before the Lord of Song With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
(Please click here for Part 1 – Discovery.) It was after Christmas when I went in for the needle biopsy. My friend J, a critical care nurse, accompanied me. We sat in the corridor outside the ultrasound room until I was called in. J was ready to come in with me,...
Mid-December 2003. Hot shower on a cold day, steam filling the shower stall – I felt it. A lump about as long as my thumb and twice as wide in my left breast. Terror. I sat with that for a while, reminding myself that most of the lumps that women...
This is a surprisingly controversial dessert. I was skeptical myself, even though I saw it discussed favorably several times on the cooking shows that are my guilty pleasure. Ingredients Strawberries Sugar Balsamic vinegar Coarsely ground black pepper Preparation Wash, hull and half the strawberries as usual. Add the sugar (about...
Many thanks to @balebusta, who drew this to my attention. These machines should be liberally scattered around every city and town in the world.
I doubt that anyone who reads Telling Knots needs an introduction to the Dave Brubeck Quartet (but if you do, start here). “Take Five” from their 1959 album Time Out was the first jazz piece that I remember listening to and enjoying. I must have been in the first grade...
Even if you know the thought experiment, this is a novel presentation and is fun to think about.
In what may be the unkindest cut of all, having cancer doesn’t give you a pass on all the other ailments of (in my case) middle age: GERD, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, joint pain… I am dying of cancer but I want to be as comfortable as possible until then...
Mujaddara, a dish of rice, lentils and carmelized onions, is popular throughout the Middle East. This is my version, cobbled together over years of eating mujaddara prepared by Palestinians, Lebanese, Iraqis, Syrians, Egyptians and Israelis. My seasoning is probably idiosyncratic and not representative of any national cuisine by this point....
