About 30% of people diagnosed with breast cancer at any stage will develop distal metastasis. I am one.
During what has come to be known as the First Gulf War in 1991, Iraq bombarded Israel with Scuds (tactical ballistic missiles) that were believed to be armed with poison gas. The Israeli population was equipped with emergency kits that included a gas mask and filter and an atropine syringe....
Whew! That was a Telling Knots first! I’d like to put things into perspective now with a summary and my analysis of the issues. On the blog I first became aware of the Flight of the Tatas event when fellow-blogger Scorchy Barrington posted a link to this article about it...
Yesterday I posted the text of my email to Living Beyond Breast Cancer about their supposed association with a topless skydiving event in Las Vegas that claimed to be raising money for LBBC. It is with great pleasure that I can confirm that Living Beyond Breast Cancer (LBBC) had absolutely...
I was already simmering with anger about the trivialization and sexualization of breast cancer when I wrote yesterday’s post about men with breast cancer. My rage boiled over when I saw that a fellow rabble-rouser living with breast cancer, my friend Scorchy Barrington, had posted a link on Facebook about...
Just as there is more to me than simply being a person living with cancer, this blog is about more than cancer. It’s about my life: my joys, things that concern me. One of the things that is concerning me very much these days is poverty. According to a recent...
A couple of weeks ago, on Wednesday, the 16th of January, I posted a controversial video called “Israel & Palestine: a very short introduction“. At that time, a very dear, longtime friend of mine who writes under the name Aliza Bat-Ami left a detailed comment, disagreeing with the message of...
This video is unabashedly political. It takes sides. From where I sit on the ground, it presents an accurate picture of the history and current state of affairs in Israel and Palestine. (“Where I sit” is precisely on the “Green Line“.) This video will make some people, including some people...
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
From my Twitter account (@knotellin) less than an hour ago: 14:15 Air raid sirens in Jerusalem RIGHT NOW. Sitting on the floor, back to windows, under a stone archway. Waiting for boom or all clear. I hear military aircraft, presume they are Israeli. 14:19 Israel GPO tweeted explosion...
Today is, I think, the sixth day of the Israeli offensive in Gaza. It did not come out of the blue, but many people believe that it is aggressive and disproportional. Some see it as a cynical political exercise at the expense of human lives, and still others believe it...