Posted in Cancer, Writing, tagged boy scouts, donna trussell, grand canyon, journey of a lifetime, kansas city star, linda elizondo, scouting, train trip on February 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
(Excerpts from posts on this trip, first published here in 2009. Read a different take on the trip in the February 7, 2010 Sunday magazine of The Kansas City Star, online at Journey of a Lifetime. View photographs from the trip on Flickr. For the slideshow of the photographs, click here.)
Long Strange Trip
At home, watching [...]
Posted in Cancer, Politics Daily, tagged awareness, bra color, breast cancer, facebook, ovarian cancer, survivor on January 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My new post on Politics Daily / Woman Up:
Regarding my previous post “My Bra? Color Me Furious,” which has clocked in at 1,000+ comments: I guess I hit a nerve.
My initial headline was “My Bra? Color Me Dubious.” But who would click on that? Not me. Writers can be so dramatic. (Besides, furious sounds kinda [...]
Posted in Cancer, Politics Daily, tagged awareness, breast cancer, facebook bra color, ovarian cancer, survivor on January 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
My new post on Politics Daily / Woman Up:
The bra-color meme that’s sweeping Facebook and allegedly raising awareness of breast cancer got a nice one-two punch from my colleague Frances Tobin.
Allow me to pile on.
Not for myself, but for friends I’ve watched face this beast. Many of them aren’t wearing bras of any color because [...]
Posted in Cancer, Politics Daily, tagged divorce cancer, marriage cancer, men leave cancer, support cancer survivor on November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My new post on Politics Daily / Woman Up:
Melinda, I wish you were correct. Junk science, you say – the study showing men will dump sick women with a six-fold greater frequency than women will dump sick men.
Eight years ago I happened to read about a similar study that showed a four-fold disadvantage for sick [...]
Posted in Cancer, Music - TV - Film, tagged cancer survivor, pbs the war, quentin aanenson, veteran, veteran's day, world war II on November 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
[Ed. note: First posted on August 5, 2008. Reposted for Veterans Day 2009.]
I just finished watching the final episode of The War, the 15-hour Ken Burns documentary on World War II that premiered almost a year ago.
Last night I watched episode five, FUBAR, which seemed long and padded. The show swung wildly from prosaic observations that [...]
Posted in Cancer, tagged cancer cartoon, cancer humor, cancer survivor, medical cartoon, medical humor, robert & donna trussell on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Two more cancer cartoons — returning the “gift” of cancer and the doctor’s spin on cancer.
Posted in Cancer, Politics Daily, tagged cancer cartoon, chaos theory, chemo, humor, lance armstrong, medical cartoon on October 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
New cartoon by Trussell & Trussell on AOL’s Politics Daily: Cancer Patient Boot Camp.
Posted in Cancer, Music - TV - Film, Politics Daily, tagged cult, daily show, positive thinking, skeptic, unemployment on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My new post on Politics Daily / Woman Up:
Happiness for sale! And worth every penny because of the good health and prosperity that will surely come, especially when your happiness is achieved through positive thinking.
Ugh . . . no, says cancer survivor Barbara Ehrenreich, author of “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America,” [...]
Posted in Cancer, Politics Daily, tagged health, fitness, longevity, ecoli, hazard, danger on October 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My new post on Politics Daily / Woman Up:
Cigarettes, dry-cleaning solvent, radon, lead paint, asbestos, DDT, mercury fillings, tuna – that’s all old news.
Now we got smoking bans, and not just in California. Even Europeans are catching on.
We got alternative dry cleaners. We got radon abatement. We got lead-free paint. It starts fading and chipping [...]
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