Another Mother’s Day has come and gone. Mother’s Day 2012 marked a significant milestone for me. I’ve now experienced five Mother’s Days without a mother. Five. This feels pretty major. Mother’s Day 2012 also marked another very different kind of milestone. In my neck of the woods, Mother’s Day marks the annual Susan G. Komen Race …
Awareness
The following is an excerpt from my memoir – Cancer Was Not a Gift & It Didn’t Make Me a Better Person: A memoir about cancer as I know it.
Does living with metastatic disease have to feel so lonely? Sometimes, I think those of us not living with metastatic breast cancer hesitate to speak out about it for a lot of reasons, primarily perhaps because of fear, but also because we don’t think we have the right to do so. We don’t really know …
When October ended, I thought I was putting pink commentary to bed, at least for a little while. As it turns out, I’m guess I’m not quite ready to “tuck in the pink and turn out the lights.” Recently the Sacramento Bee featured a response from Nancy Brinker, Susan G Komen for the Cure®’s founder and CEO, to …
Pink Ribbon Blues by Gayle Sulik, my review. Everywhere you look during October, along with the changing color of leaves, there is pink. And I’m just wondering … Are you feeling blue yet about seeing all that pink? Pink Ribbon Blues: How Breast Cancer Culture Undermines Women’s Health by Gayle A. Sulik, MA, PhD, is …