Starvation, Displacement And America’s Complicity Since I started writing about the aftermath of my Whipple surgery, I’ve been...

Egon Schiele My four grandparents were Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe who came to the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century. They...

One surgeon looked at my scans and said the word you never want to hear: unresectable . She wasn’t unkind; she was honest, brutally. Her...

Trump, RFK Jr & The Sabotage Of Survival— MAGA’s War On Cancer Research Today, voting for a Republican is akin to being suicidal— and not...

Legalizing Crime, Defunding Hope: Trump’s Assault on the Vulnerable I’m old enough to remember when the Supreme Court— and a small...

GOP Budget Passes House— Will Slash The Social Safety Net To A Third-World Level I’m in the final stages of chemotherapy— two more...

It shocked me when a new member of my health team mentioned to me in our first meeting that I should seriously consider if I was certain...

I’m having dinner with an old friend tonight. If our reservation had been for last night I would have had to cancel because… well, this ....

When I was weighing the pros and cons of buying my forever home. the size of the master bedroom on the second floor was a huge plus for...

Lately I’ve heard about people I’ve known or relatives of people I know falling down and dying. Last night week I got into my car and...

The first time I heard a diagnosis of cancer it shocked me. My mind didn’t go blank; it was more like white noise. I heard the doctor say...

There’s a truism about thyroid cancer: if you have to get cancer, that’s the one to get. It’s the easiest cancer to deal with and the...

I woke up to dozens of well-meaning e-mails saying the senders hope I feel better. I don’t feel better. I feel worse. You always feel...

Also Cancer I was talking with a congressman yesterday who I respect tremendously. He was talking to me about campaign mailers and how...