The post you are reading is not the way this project was supposed to begin. My friend Julie and I had talked about a project with the working title: “Coupla Sick Chicks” (with apologies to the 1981 play, “A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking”). But we had no concrete plans. That’s what the meeting last [...]
Posts Tagged ‘ovarian’
Elizabeth Edwards: Topic No. 1 for a Coupla Sick Chicks Sitting Around Talking
Posted in Cancer, Politics, Woman Up, tagged breast, elizabeth edwards, julie levine, marriage, ovarian on December 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Cancer and the Color Wars: Pink? Teal? Purple?
Posted in Cancer, Pop Culture, Woman Up, tagged breast, color wars, ovarian, pancreatic, randy pausch on September 28, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The late summer teal dusk of September is leaving us. You did know that September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, and that teal is the ribbon color, didn’t you? And of course you saw the woman with Teal Toes. Oh I guess not, since she’s in Chicago, and you’re in Cincinnati. But you must have [...]
My Own Private 9/11
Posted in Cancer, Woman Up, tagged 9/11, ovarian, september 11 on September 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Nine years ago on the morning of September 11, 2001, I turned on the TV to check the weather. My default station, CNN, broadcast a huge gaping hole in the World Trade Center, with black smoke billowing out. I yelled, “Robert, come here! Something horrible has happened.” If I recall correctly, we were watching live [...]
Christie Buckner, They Oughta Name a Drink After You
Posted in Cancer, Woman Up, Writing, tagged christie buckner, gambit weekly, new orleans, ovarian 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 [...]
The Silent Killer Takes Out a Woman Who Would Not Shut Up
Posted in Cancer, Politics, Woman Up, tagged christie buckner, gambit weekly, new orleans, ovarian, ritz-carlton 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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