Podcast by two friends discussing their cancer experience the way they wished someone had when they were going through it.
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Oil and Water: Cancer and Friendship Don’t Mix
What causes friendships and metastatic cancer to repel one another like two magnets? The metastatic breast cancer diagnosis I received three and a half years ago sent most of my friends and family scattering like roaches under appliances in a suddenly lit kitchen. In our dark hours we expect relationships to hold us like a […]
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I think it’s brave, too.
The Wisdom of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, II
What’s Eating Me? What I Cannot Eat.
Webster’s New English Dictionary online Definition of die, for English Language Learners: to stop living to end life in a specified state or condition to have or suffer (a specified kind of death) What happened to the singular of dice? Even Webster’s occasionally leaves out an obvious definition. Eat. Even one meal a day to […]
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Relay for Life
Finally, after three years and some months, my energy and my spirit rose to the occasion, not only to passively raise money but to also actively participate in the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life. I’m on a local San Jose team, which I came to know a couple of years ago at an estate […]
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