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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 Bra-ha-ha

Posted in Cancer, Pop Culture, Social Media, tagged , , , on January 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

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 like dubious.) In truth, I’m not so [...]

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My Bra? Color Me Furious

Posted in Cancer, Pop Culture, Social Media, tagged , , , , , , on January 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »

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 their breasts are long gone. Instead [...]

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