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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It Is Still September. Not Pink. Teal!
Posted in Cancer, Woman Up, tagged awareness, christie buckner, ovarian, symptoms, teal on September 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On Memorial Day, Remember the Mothers, Children, Wives and Lovers Too
Posted in Politics, Woman Up, tagged arlington national cemetery, memorial day, section 60 on May 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
[originally published by Politics Daily in 2010; reposting for Memorial Day 2011] The famous photograph of Mary McHugh prostrated on the grave of her late fiance, James Regan, was taken by photojournalist John Moore three years ago. It could have been yesterday. Arlington Cemetery’s Section 60 is where military service members who died in Iraq [...]
Mother’s Day: A Texas Magnolia Who Finally Faded
Posted in Pop Culture, Woman Up, tagged grandmother, huntsville, Interesting, mother's day, sam houston, texas on May 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
[originally published by Politics Daily in 2010; reposting for Mother's Day 2011] My grandmother Grace Crawford Longino came into this world in 1901 and left it in 2002. In mid-century she seemed to be the most important woman in her town of Huntsville, Texas. By the time she died, she was almost forgotten except by [...]
Mom Has Cancer. Her Son Reacts.
Posted in Cancer, Woman Up, tagged breast, elliot levine, jewish, judaism, julie levine, mother, ovarian, son 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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