Angelina Jolie’s choice
As someone who's so closely associated with breast cancer, I feel I should acknowledge Angelina Jolie and welcome her to the sorority no one wants to join. So I'm writing this to salute her for having a double mastectomy in order to avoid getting breast cancer, the disease that killed her mother. And even more to salute her for writing an article in the New York Times today, disclosing her surgeries, her health history, and her personal feelings about it. I am writing about it now because I hope that other women can benefit from my experience. Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness.....On a personal note, I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity. I realize she didn't have cancer, just the BRCA1 gene; and that she had the best care money could buy; not to mention Brad Pitt … [Read More...]
Mother’s Day: Both Sides Now
Women who become mothers experience Mother’s Day from both sides—as daughters and as mothers. An experience that’s not necessarily two sides of the same coin. More than any other day of the year, for me this day brings mixed emotions: one side sad; the other joyous. The year I was 18 was the last [...]
Call me mommy
4 days later I still have a glow from last weekend in Laguna Beach. It’s not from the sun. It could be if I had spent any time at the pool. (Good luck getting me into a bathing suit in public. Or in private.) No, the glow is from inside. It’s from the warmth of [...]
WHOA! Something New
I thought it’s appropriate to do my first video here– since video is what the something new is all about. Click here to watch video Click here for WHOAnetwork.com
A First: I’ll Eat You Last
I feel as if I’ve been been underground since Groundhog’s Day. (More on why– coming soon) I did emerge briefly last week to attend a wedding on the east coast……which gave me exactly one night in New York to see family…..which turned out to be the exact one night for a first-in-a-lifetime experience. What timing: [...]
fading away
Cancer has stalked me for my entire life. So much loss; so many people. In many ways it’s with me every day; although sometimes my own experience of cancer, horrific as it was at the time, tends to fade away. Sometimes it seems unreal, as if cancer happened to someone else. But for other people [...]
It’s not over till it’s Passover
I mean my blog is not over —though lately it might seem as if I’ve deserted it. And speaking of dessert.…that’s what brought me back just under the wire: the start of Passover and the continuation of a sweet and very blog-worthy tradition. (More soon on the reasons I’ve been MIA.) Meanwhile, you don’t want [...]
After becoming a writer, artist, TV journalist, mother and breast cancer survivor----I realize nothing turns out the way we expect. So I blog about handling the big and little things — with humor, humanity, and hope.
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