Nearly six months ago (yikes!) I was asked to write a review for the new (at the time) book, So Much to Be Done:  The Writings of Breast Cancer Activist Barbara Brenner (edited by Barbara Sjoholm, introduction by Rachel Morello-Frosch, afterword by Anne Lamott, University of Minnesota Press), and I said yes because I am a …

Has breast cancer become too normalized? Does it sometimes seem like lots of women who talk about their breast cancer experiences often mention how they’ve become more appreciative, enlightened, transformed for the better, or whatever? Does it seem like there is story after story about celebrities sharing, let’s be honest here, more than we want …

Post-cancer diagnosis, do you ever feel like you’re living in Pink Ribbon Fantasy Land? If you’re like me and have been diagnosed with breast cancer, you will never forget the day you heard those words, you have cancer. You will likely never forget how you were then propelled into the maze of cancer treatment and …

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve started this post, deleted it, re-started it, pondered over whether I should publish it or not, and then pondered some more about whether it’s appropriate for October and so on. In other words, I’ve over-thought it. A lot. Finally, I said to myself, just publish the darn …

Another October is here, and with it comes another month of breast cancer awareness shenanigans. Once again, there will be too-many-to-count posts and articles to read about pink ribbon this and pink ribbon that. (Not that any of it is actually about pink or pink ribbons at all; it goes way deeper than that). There …