Warning: This is a tongue-in-cheek, sarcastic sort of post. Admittedly, it’s not for everyone. The Pink Ribbon Fairy Tale is a lie, and it really needs to go. No, it needs to be shredded and replaced with tales of reality. There is a time and place for fantasy, but breast cancer is not it. What …
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Here we are. Another October. Another Breast Cancer Awareness Month. (This is BCAM # 36, if I’m counting right.) One week down. Another 21 days or so of who knows what coming down the pink pipeline. Does BCAM feel different this year? I mean, there’s the pandemic, deep political divides (even within families), the election, …
Whew, we’ve nearly made it through another Breast Cancer Awareness Month! To wrap up Pinktober, the 2019 edition, I thought I’d share some random observations. Be sure to share yours in the comments too. 1. Randomness. That is my first observation. My mind has been all over the map this month. Random. That’s me. I …
For the last few years, I’ve been reading, and you probably have been too, statements such as: We are all aware of breast cancer. Enough with the awareness. Everyone knows about breast cancer and other similar sentiments. So, I’ve gotta ask, have we reached the point of awareness saturation? As I’ve written before, if you …
16 things breast cancer is not! In this post, I wanna get right to the point. Okay, points. And I want to be succinct, which means I am making no commentary on any of the statements on the list below. Which is really hard for me. (I did stick in a few links, though, in …