Unless you live under a rock, or maybe in another country, you are probably aware that October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. (You are probably less aware that March is National Colon Cancer Month, but that’s another story.) I have mixed feeling about the whole Breast Cancer=Pink=Corporate sponsors/profits thing–It obviously comes from the best of … Read more
Last week I went to a presentation called Food for Thought: What You Need to Know About Nutrition and Cancer sponsored by Cancer Treatment Centers of America. I was interested in the evening’s presentation because it featured both a nutritionist and a doctor of gastroenterology. As a colon cancer experiencer who has self-treated primarily with … Read more
In my more zen moments I always think I can, through self-awareness avoid the ones like these: sick and stressed and extremely insecure about my abilities to achieve the goals I set for myself. I love that conversation in Joe Vs. the Volcano where Joe’s boss is talking on the phone, saying “I know he … Read more
Since I’m sick with a cold and classes are over, I don’t HAVE to go out. So I’m not going out. It takes a few days of being cooped up in the house before I actually want to start organizing. That time has come. So I am slowly going through the pile of papers on … Read more
I woke up this morning thinking about how soon after I was first diagnosed with cancer, I went to see a lecture by Buddhist teacher Soygal Rinpoche. He gave us a visualization to work with that was about a Buddha floating over your head, who poured a kind of golden elixir that would enter the … Read more
My friend Rosie just celebrated her third cancerversary. Congrats Rosie. My own “cancer-free” status, has just passed the five year mark–kind of. After a surgery to remove the tumor in December of 03, I had a PET scan in February of 04, that showed clear results. There are a couple of reasons for my uncertainty … Read more
Books on nutrition will tell you to shop the periphery of the grocery store, and try to skip the aisles. I must be doing a good job, because somehow I completely missed these Campbell soup cans, first released for Breast Cancer Awareness Month in 2006, and again in 2007. As noted in this press release, … Read more
I think one of the most valuable things I learned from my screenwriting experience was how very helpful it is to really look at a good grouping of example works that deal with some of the same issues your project will have. So for the screenplay I watched John Hughes movies form the 80’s, other … Read more
I have now been tagged twice for a meme that asks me to post 5 things that people probably don’t know about me. Once by my friend Sandra and the other by my friend Matt, who has the Zotblog…but who also has this blog where he actually posted his five things. One is that when … Read more
It’s like the name for a work of art, or a musical composition. And I’d never noticed how “o” heavy it is. That word has four “o”s. And eleven letters, so you’d have to be pretty lucky to build that word in multiple turns at Scrabble. Anyway. Night before the big game girls! Let’s make … Read more