Cancer

Rachel Cheetam Moro died on February 6, 2012 from metastatic breast cancer. She was my friend. She was supposed to turn 42 years old on her birthday last week. She was supposed to still be a wife, sister, aunt, daughter and friend. Of course she is still these things, but not in the way she should …

Labels belong on soup cans not cancer patients. What am I talking about? Let me explain. When I learned to read waaaay back in first grade during the Dick, Jane and Spot era, my class was neatly divided into three reading groups according to our ability, or that’s what the intention was anyway. Each group …

Are you familiar with TED talks? In case you’ve never heard of them, TED talks are video recordings of presentations one can tune into on the internet to hear someone discuss (supposedly in a fresh or entertaining way) just about anything you can think of. I rarely watch them. Frankly, I don’t have the attention span …

Since my cancer diagnosis, I have read countless articles and lists covering things one should say or not say to someone with cancer. There is also plenty of advice out there addressing what you should or should not do. Some of these things I agree with and some I do not. What ever happened to …

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you know how I feel about the whole idea of calling cancer a gift. As my friend Rachel used to say, “If someone says cancer is a gift, they’ve been drinking the chemo.” Rachel had such a great sense of humor. I miss Rachel’s wisecracks. I …