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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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Christie Buckner, They Oughta Name a Drink After You

Posted in Cancer, Woman Up, Writing, tagged , , , on April 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

[ed. note: letters from readers responding to A Silent Killer Takes Out a Woman Who Would Not Shut Up] Cancer survivors are reluctant to search for old friends with whom they’ve lost touch. We fear what we may find. Eventually, though, curiosity gets the best of us. Sometimes we get good news. More often than [...]

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The Silent Killer Takes Out a Woman Who Would Not Shut Up

Posted in Cancer, Politics, Woman Up, tagged , , , , on April 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Christie Buckner was an ordinary woman, so the world took little notice of her death on October 1, 2009. Last night I came across a short, vague Times Picayune obit. Christie was 39 years old. “She conducted a courageous and tenacious fight for her life for many years. She is survived by her family and [...]

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Of Wigs and Men

Posted in Cancer, Writing, tagged , , , , on June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

There’s a fine line between the moving and the maudlin, and every day writers attempt to walk that tightrope. Disclosure: I know John Mark Eberhart, the book editor at The Kansas City Star and author of the essay ”Living With Cancer: 6 years under its insidious shadow, hair and wig jokes are powerful comfort.” [Ed. note: [...]

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