Information about risk, prevention, screening, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and support for all cancers I use a digital camera and hunt for colorful spring flowers to tune into the artist in me, while ovarian cancer survivor Annette Bennington McElhiney paints an alter ego she has named Althea.
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CancerLand Bookshelf: Sound Travels on Water
Book Review: Serendipity: that’s the word that immediately comes to mind when I think about how I happened to connect with Kyle Potvin’s delightful chapbook, Sound Travels on Water.
CancerLand Bookshelf: Looking at Light: 100 Poems in 100 Days after cancer
Somewhere in the middle of reading Looking at Light, a vivid moment from a cancer support group meeting plays back in my head, almost like a scene from a movie.
CancerLand Bookshelf: L is for Lion: an Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir
L is for Lion is one big, beautifully written book, filled with colorful stories about many different things: Italian families, life in the Bronx, lesbianism and treatment for cancer.
CancerLand Bookshelf: The End of Your Life Book Club
Will Schwalbe’s memoir initially hooked me – a relationship with an aging parent focused on books they read and discuss together. That’s my story too! But this book is so much more.