About 30% of people diagnosed with breast cancer at any stage will develop distal metastasis. I am one.
It’s been a year and a half since I last posted a book review on the blog because it’s been a year and a half since I last felt strongly enough about a book to write one. Julie Frayn’s Mazie Baby is the book that got me going.* Mazie Baby...
This is a news photo taken at a unique demonstration held in the mixed Druze and Christian village of Ussefiya (Isfiya) in northern Israel. The placard featured in the photo reads Violence is a Cancer of Society. Other signs at the demonstration read There is no honor in crime and Your silence is approval...
When I read Robert Morgan’s poem “Maple Gall” a few days ago, the first phrases to strike me were tortured cluster of malignancies… cells grow drunk… awful excess growths and, of course, I thought of the cancer that I live with, and I was drawn in. I continued to read beauty...
