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She Had a Job, a Boyfriend and a Brain Tumor, Back When Reality TV Was Real

Posted in Cancer, Music - TV - Film, Politics Daily, tagged , , , , , on August 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

My new post on Politics Daily / Woman Up. She Had a Job, a Boyfriend and a Brain Tumor, Back When Reality TV Was Real. For a moment in time, she was pediatric resident Dr. Marnie Rose at Memorial Hermann in Houston. I got to know her a little during my first, tumultuous year of [...]

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Two Weddings and an E-mail

Posted in Cancer, Politics Daily, tagged , , , , , on July 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

My new post on Politics Daily / Woman Up. Two Weddings and an E-mail. As some may have heard, Chelsea Clinton is getting married on Saturday in a multimillion-dollar wedding. People have said the event is excessive, especially in these tough times. Others, the U.K. Guardian’s, Paul Harris, observe, after the family scandals she endured, [...]

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Women and Their Hair: A Love Story

Posted in Cancer, Politics Daily, tagged , , , , , on June 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

My new post on Politics Daily / Woman Up. Women and Their Hair: A Love Story. “How can women think with all this hair?” That quote is from an inconsequential bit of fluff, “Switch,” a 1991 movie starring Ellen Barkin. Plot: a sexist man gets murdered by three ex-girlfriends and is reincarnated as a woman, [...]

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Republicans to the Unemployed: You’re Lazy

Posted in Cancer, Politics Daily, tagged , , , , , , , , on June 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

My new post on Politics Daily / Woman Up. Republicans to the Unemployed: You’re Lazy. Salt, meet wound. Wound being unemployment, and salt being the suggestion that the worst economy since the Great Depression was created by its powerless victims — the jobless. Republicans, do tell: If so many jobs are ripe for plucking, explain [...]

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War Casualties and the Emptiness Left Behind

Posted in Cancer, Politics Daily, tagged , , , , , , , on June 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

My new post on Politics Daily / Woman Up. War Casualties and the Emptiness Left Behind. The first reply to my post “On Memorial Day, Remember the Mothers, Children, Wives and Lovers Too” was from a high school teacher. She remembered Sgt. Ronald Kubik, one of the soldiers featured in the story. She had him [...]

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The Joy of Cancer

Posted in Cancer, LOL Cancer, tagged , , , on May 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

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Cancer Panel: Chemicals ‘Grossly Underestimated’ as Carcinogens

Posted in Cancer, Politics Daily, tagged , , , , , on May 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

My new post on Politics Daily / Woman Up. Cancer Panel: Chemicals ‘Grossly Underestimated’ as Carcinogens. Just as we’re once again treated to the sight of volunteers scrubbing oil off wildfowl (ah, memories), along comes the President’s Cancer Panel report that says we’re being polluted to death. And I quote: The “true burden of environmentally [...]

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Cancer. Treatment. Voila!

Posted in Cancer, LOL Cancer, tagged , , , , on May 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The cartoonists wish to thank Politics Daily, where this cartoon originally appeared.

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Cancer: It’s All in Your Mind

Posted in Cancer, LOL Cancer, tagged , , , , on May 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

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Video of Phil and Amy Mickelson’s Masters Kiss Pushes Tiger Aside

Posted in Cancer, Politics Daily, tagged , , , , , , , on April 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

[ed. note: If you're just looking for the video, try the one above. It's filmed off the TV, so the quality is not the best, but it shows more of the looooong, sweet embrace than the newsy video on Politics Daily.] My new post on Politics Daily / Woman Up. Video of Phil and Amy [...]

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Christie Buckner, They Oughta Name a Drink After You

Posted in Cancer, Politics Daily, tagged , , , , on April 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

My new post, Christie Buckner, They Oughta Name a Drink After You, on Politics Daily / Woman Up. A sample: Cancer survivors are reluctant to search for old friends with whom they’ve lost touch. We fear what we may find. Eventually, though, curiosity gets the best of us. Sometimes we get good news. More often [...]

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The SCAR Project

Posted in Cancer, tagged , , , , on April 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

This photo says it all — the vulnerability, the loss, the fear, the courage, the bizarre but unmistakable pride that is cancer. The SCAR Project is the brainchild of David Jay, a New York fashion photographer now living in Australia. Jay writes: Having seen first hand the power of this project and based on the reception [...]

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The Silent Killer Takes Out a Woman Who Would Not Shut Up

Posted in Cancer, Politics Daily, tagged , , , , on April 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

My new post on Politics Daily / Woman Up: Christie Buckner was an ordinary woman, so the world took little notice of her death last October. Last night I came across a short, vague Times Picayune obit. Christie was 39 years old. “She conducted a courageous and tenacious fight for her life for many years. [...]

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Hostage

Posted in Cancer, Writing, tagged , on April 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Hostage by Donna Trussell I understand how frightened you are. You’re eager to unfold, unwrap, tag, categorize, file away your fear of cancer, along with facts even worse than chemicals and cuts. Flowers begin to wilt, and those who loved you begin to forget, begin again the illusion that you yourself once had. I used [...]

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Cancer, Then Treatment, Then Voila!

Posted in Cancer, Politics Daily, tagged , , , , , on March 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

New cartoon by Trussell & Trussell on AOL’s Politics Daily. Cancer, Then Treatment, Then Voila!

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