I recently bought a sewing machine. Yes, I know that these days it’s cheaper to buy finished clothing than to buy cloth and sew a dress yourself. But I bought a sewing machine. Compounding the horror, I also bought a waffle iron. Waffle irons are frivolous. Ridiculous. One more thing to lug around. And what’s wrong [...]
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The healing path of dresses and waffles
Posted in Cancer, She the People, tagged daughter, mother, mother's day, ovarian, sewing on May 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Komen, Go Back to Your Roots
Posted in Cancer, She the People, Women, tagged breast cancer, planned parenthood, susan g komen on February 5, 2012 | 3 Comments »
It seems the Komen Foundation folks were unprepared for the blowback — known in some circles as “Komen-tastrophe” — after their now apparently rescinded decision to halt funding to Nancy Brinker, founder and CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure Planned Parenthood. But they should have known. If Twitter and Facebook can bring down [...]
You Have Breast Cancer? Say What??
Posted in Cancer, tagged breast cancer, girls say to girls, jenny saldana, video on February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Brilliant.
Ovarian Cancer Drug Fail (and that’s the good news?)
Posted in Cancer, tagged avastin, chemo, ovarian, she the people, steve buie, washington post on January 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
How bad is ovarian cancer? Here’s how bad: A drug that fails to prolong the lives of ovarian cancer patients was just declared the biggest breakthrough in 15 years. According to results of two international clinical trials, published last week, the drug Avastin (aka bevacizumab) can interfere with blood vessel growth, and thereby slow disease [...]


