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He Hates His Job

Posted in Cancer, Journalism, Pop Culture, Writing, tagged , , , on November 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Late last night, I came across a post in Salon’s advice column Since You Asked: I’m a successful book editor but I hate my job. The subhead: My wife is leaving me but I can’t feel anything. I’m depressed. My life is falling apart. How do I reinvent myself? As a writer myself, I was [...]

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It Is Still September. Not Pink. Teal!

Posted in Cancer, Woman Up, tagged , , , , on September 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

It is still September. It is still Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. Our color is not pink. Our color is teal. My friend Christie Buckner died at age 39. My April 2010 post about her on Politics Daily prompted so many reader letters that I wrote a followup quoting from them. Christie, somewhere there’s a memorial [...]

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The Man Who Saved My Life

Posted in Cancer, tagged , , , , , on June 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »

[updated July 5, 2011] Today I got a little emotional at my annual checkup. Come with me on the way-back machine to August 9, 2001, when severe abdominal pain sent me to the emergency room: “Everything Changed,” originally published in The Kansas City Star in 2002. On call that night about ten years ago was Dr. [...]

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Chemotherapy: Oy Vey!

Posted in Cancer, tagged , , , , on May 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

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Mom Has Cancer. Her Son Reacts.

Posted in Cancer, Woman Up, tagged , , , , , , , on March 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »

My friend Julie Levine had everything I lacked: A charmed childhood, beautiful kids. I might have envied her had she not been the nicest person I ever met. And, therefore, a magnet for cancer. (On an Internet bulletin board I once frequented, we joked that compassion and a zest for living were risk factors.) Julie [...]

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