A Retreat for Those Facing Serious Illness
When you become ill, seriously ill, you might feel hopeless or angry or full of despair. One of life’s most terrifying realizations is that we…
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‘A Monster Calls’: A Moving Look at Life’s Painful Truths
Princes and princesses. A wicked queen. A hermit apothecary who lives on the outskirts of town. Happily ever after. These are the building blocks of…
Batgirl Gets Breast Cancer
Patti Rogers was a superhero young wife, mom and party hostess when she received news that would change everything from her career to her spirituality.…
The Fault in Our Stars: More Than a Love Story
If you’re looking for this summer’s most action-packed blockbuster, then you should not see The Fault in Our Stars. But if you’re looking for a…
Oncology and Ontology
This was the cosmic equivalent of either Jim Perry or Bob Eubanks turning over the Queen of Diamonds on the game show Card Sharks and all I had to do was shout, “Lower!” Yet when the Game Show host Fate turned over that next card, it turned out to be the King of Spades, I was one of that 5-10%.
The Book of Job
In the Old Testament Class for which the paper was being written, we discussed how the personification of divine insight in the Hebrew Scriptures is often referred to as “Woman Wisdom.” But sitting in a waiting room to find out if I had cancer, I could not help but wonder if I was also being joined by “Dame Irony.”
Is Mary the patron saint of women who have cancer associated with female organs?
The patron saint for cancer in general is St. Peregrine. (There are a few others, but Peregrine is the most well-known.) Most specific forms of…
Faithful Departed: Elizabeth Bonwich
Hospice. The word sounds ominous enough when it’s spoken in reference to an older person, but when it’s used to describe the dying months of…
Living and Dying with Tuck Everlasting
For Kathleen Erin Daly The outside cover of Natalie Babbit’s 1975 novel Tuck Everlasting poses just one question — what would you do if you…
Faithful Departed — Patrick Swayze
There are some famous people that seem so kind and so genuine that I am glad they are somewhere in the world. I don’t need…
