7 Tips for Getting Through Your Breast Cancer Diagnosis
When my doctor told me I had an aggressive tumor that had already spread, it didn’t seem real. Here’re my top tips for getting through a...
Chip It
I remember when Gary and I were broke. The night before Christmas, five minutes before closing, we headed into the Christmas tree lot to...
Top Ten Things I Learned from Kathy
1. It’s okay to call God Gertrude and to come to the glorious, scandalous, liberating, unCatholic realization that God might be a woman....
Cancer’s Other What If’s
Cancer brings a cycle of unwanted questions. Scary questions. Questions no one wants to ask. What if they can’t catch it? What if it...
What Every Fourth Grader Knows
Ask any fourth grader. Unfairness is what pisses people off. It’s not infuriating when no one gets candy. It’s infuriating when one...
Let's Not Be Frank
This week I heard a familiar voice on KQED Public Radio – one of my former tenants was being interviewed. I’ll call him Frank, but...
Cancer By the Numbers
A quick story, told in numbers.
Breast Cancer? Put It On Ice
A new technology called cryotherapy might help you avoid chemo.
The Blonde in the Waiting Room
It is the nature of serious illness to leave questions unanswered. The blonde in the waiting room is one of them.
Walking on Broken Glass
My family and I stopped to look at art this week. While we wandered around sculptures, someone smashed the window of our truck and stole...
