It’s a funny thing: Suddenly everyone we know knows someone newly diagnosed with cancer. Maybe this was happening all around us before we entered cancerland, back when we were unscathed, back before we spoke the language. Back in the Old Country. Now somehow we’ve become greeters here. It seems that Continue Reading
tips and suggestions
Nourishing Val (and the rest of us too)
Dearies, the excellent Miz Liz has tracked down some more nutrition specifics for anyone who wants guidance in helping Val eat really healthfully (or indeed, do so yourself). This info supplements the nutrition info in an earlier post. Val’s old friend Amy also pointed us to the CTCA site (Cancer Continue Reading
Eating for an ornery old age
Hi all! I write today from my lovely, humid, jungle-green hometown of Bloomington, Indiana. Abby and I drove here by back roads yesterday, through cornfields and deciduous woods and over swollen muddy rivers, windows down (and hair enormous) in the luscious muggy heat. We gawped at the flooded fields athwart Continue Reading