My mom is 90 today. I wish. How she looked at 40 is how she’ll always remain. Frozen in time. 90 years. What used to be remarkable has become commonplace: celebrities, many of my friends parents, all three of my aunts including my mother’s own sister, living well into their 90’s. That’s made it even harder as […]
#BCSM: Standing on Thin Ice
When you’re standing next to Dorothy Hamill, as I was in this photo taken last night, it’s natural to be thinking about ice. The reason all of us are here explains the rest of the title. Some people don’t realize that after you’ve had breast cancer, you aren’t cured, you didn’t “beat” cancer. This is […]
To the Mystery Shopper Who Paid it Forward and Made a Fashion Statement
It’s the Holy Grail for women. Finding clothes that flatter your body is a quest that never ends. Short-waisted, long-waisted, big bust, small bust. We’ve all got issues. We get older and the issues just evolve. Or more accurately, expand. The years add pounds and inches exponentially. And it doesn’t help that I had two mastectomies […]
Seeing Breast Cancer with 20/20 Vision
20 years after I made a TV documentary about breast cancer, I was diagnosed myself. Having now survived 20 years after my diagnosis, that’s what I mean by 20/20 vision. Breast cancer was way under the radar 40 years ago, even though it killed 40 thousand people every year in the US. No one knew much […]
Hope on Mother’s Day
My family totally spoils me on Mother’s Day. As they should. Of course there’s chocolate. And well before I open my box of See’s Chocolate Nuts and Chews, I will be served coffee and breakfast and the New York Times before I get out of bed….. delivered by one or both of my adult kids if they’re […]
Deli Man: Support Your Local Deli
You don’t have to be Jewish to Believe: that blintzes are bliss, pastrami is perfection; matzo ball soup is magic. Support your Local Deli! If you even have one, you’re lucky. As documented in the new documentary film Deli Man, delis have become an endangered species disappearing at an alarming rate. We’re down to less […]
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