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How I Forgave My Parents For Disowning Me

Because I’m such a reader, and because I was forced to just sit and relax so much this year, I read a lot of books. Here’s my list of the best of what I read this year (in no particular order): 1. Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese. All my favorite things rolled up in […]

Letting Go of The Wig

Today I donated my wig from last years chemo days to a local group that refurbishes wigs for cancer patients going through chemo. With my sister Sue, in NYC, wearing my wig, towards the end of my chemo treatments. The wig has been meandering around my bedroom for a while. When I first stopped wearing […]

My Bingewatching Obsession with ‘Sons Of Anarchy’

I’ve been watching obsessed with Sons Of Anarchy on Netflix for the past few months. I’m well into Season 4 and am fascinated by the sheer awfulness of the story. I say awfulness because the plot is truly horrifying, not because the show is awful. The show is a wild ride about a club of outlaw […]

Happy Birthday To My 16 Year Old Son

10 years old “Your son will hold your hand only for a little while. But he will hold your heart for a lifetime.” — Anonymous Today is my son’s 16th birthday. One of the reasons I started My Left Breast was to leave a legacy for my kids in the event that something were to […]

Making the Effort To Walk To Church In A Blizzard and Then Getting Dissed By The Priest’s Sermon

This was a post I originally wrote on February 2, 2011 which I thought I’d revisit and dust off. Very deja vu and apropos. All of this snow has me thinking about when we were kids, because it sure seemed like we had a lot of snow days back then. In particular, I remember one […]

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How I Forgave My Parents For Disowning Me

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