D uring the past spring and summer, while I was in my cancer treatment  -- what I fondly refer to as as my "confinement" -- I s...

R aspberries are my favorite berry , favorite fruit, bar none. And for that, I owe my mother. My city-to-country transplant parents bou...

N ever has an platitude struck a chord with me so resoundingly as "When life gives you lemons . . . " has as it has this past ...

" . . . and be sure and gets lots of protein!" That's one of the first admonitions I got from my chemotherapy nurse. That...

T here's a scene in the 1980 movie "Private Benjamin" where Goldie Hawn's character, Judy, while marching through the ...

I ndependence Day is a little special for me this year because I finished my last chemotherapy treatment for my breast cancer this past...

D ealing with breast cancer is a pretty good reason for not blogging, don’t you think? Actually, I’ve been debating with myself an...