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Journey of a Lifetime

Posted in Cancer, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , on February 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »

(Excerpts from posts on this trip, first published here in 2009. Read a different take on the trip in the February 7, 2010 Sunday magazine of The Kansas City Star, online at Journey of a Lifetime. View photographs from the trip on Flickr. For the slideshow of the photographs, click here.) Long Strange Trip At [...]

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Barbecue & Kansas City Stars

Posted in Pop Culture, tagged , , , , on April 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Sometimes my fellow Kansas Citians seem more allergic to strong opinion and decisive action than to ragweed. How could this be? Perhaps, the theory goes, Kansas City was settled by would-be Oregon Trail pioneers who stocked up at trading posts in Independence, Missouri and then at the last moment chickened out. The flaw in that [...]

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Everything Changed

Posted in Cancer, Writing, tagged , , , on June 25, 2008 | 4 Comments »

By Donna Trussell [First published September 2, 2002 in The Kansas City Star] At first I wanted to say: No, that can’t be. I’m not a cancer person. Cancer is for other people, like getting a tattoo or eating squid. Fine for them, but not my style. And this wasn’t just any cancer. I first [...]

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