As a follow-up to my previous post, here are a few pictures from my recent vacation (click on image to see full size): (1) a lighthouse at Halifax, Nova Scotia; (2) Cormorants at the Bay of Fundy, St. John, New Brunswick; (3) Acadia National Park in Maine; (4) Thunderhole, also at Acadia; and (5) Sunset [...]
I want to thank you all for the comments, letters and other ways you have kept in touch with me. This feedback is what we bloggers live for! But I have to share with you that it might take me a little more time than usual to respond because, although my mind is willing, my [...]
The following observation was made by Michael Lerner, Ph.D, winner of a MacArthur "genius" award and author of a book about cancer and complementary medicine : Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Medicine (MIT Press, 1996). (Available at amazon.com.) "Even when a cure is not possible, healing always is. You see, [...]
What I am posting here is an entry from the Wall Street Journal Health Blog, to which I subscribe ("Searching for Meaning in Terminal Cancer", by Shirley S. Wang, July 14, 2009). http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/07/14/searching-for-meaning-in-terminal-cancer/ You can find the full text of this article in the regular edition of the paper (wsj.com). "Celebrity spokespeople like Lance Armstrong and Christina Applegate [...]
I am glad to see the subject of "Watchful Waiting", or "Active Surveillance as we call it now, being discussed more often as an option for men diagnosed with prostate cancer. I also think it's good that more guys are pursuing AS rather than jumping into (or being prodded into) invasive treatments. It used to [...]