How did I miss the dragon boat? Am I the only breast cancer survivor who until yesterday didn’t know about the over one hundred breast cancer survivor dragon boat racing teams around the world?I first picked up the story in a British newspaper article about a breast cancer survivor named Sue Shackleton. Pursuing this lead, I discovered that... Read more
This week I read Miriam Engelberg’s breast cancer memoir titled Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics, and fell in love. Engelberg’s book is about as opposite from Cancer Vixen (another graphic memoir I’ve reviewed) as it could get and still be a graphic memoir about breast cancer.I loved Marisa Acocella... Read more
Surely you have heard the recent story covered by practically every major, minor, and health news media that, according to a recent article in the Archives of Internal Medicine, naps are not just pleasant—they are good for you. A scientific study has made a guilty pleasure okay. That story and P.J. Hamel’s recent “sleepless” blogs have... Read more
I don’t know if it was the sweet relief of the mammogram report I’d received that morning, the unusually large crowd in my breast cancer surgeon’s waiting room, or the fact that my surgeon is Italian that got me thinking about Fibonacci.I’m no saint, but I’ve mostly stopped resenting these medical holdups. We’re not called... Read more
Surely you have heard the recent story covered by practically every major, minor, and health news media that, according to a recent article in the Archives of Internal Medicine, naps are not just pleasant—they are good for you. A scientific study has made a guilty pleasure okay. That story and P.J. Hamel’s recent “sleepless” blogs have... Read more
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