Close To Home
Published at: 06:06 pm - Wednesday June 24 2009
Around the time I turned 55 earlier this year, I was finding out that my first six-month post-slash-‘n’-burn mammogram appeared to show some possible further breast cancer, for which I was advised to get another diagnostic mammogram as soon as possible. My best birthday present this year, far and away, was being told that this […]
Posted in: Life & Mortality, Metastastatic Breast Cancer by Kathi breast cancer, healthcare, mortality, vulnerability, women
Papa, They Took My Kodachrome Away!
Published at: 11:06 pm - Monday June 22 2009
Okay, as a photographer, I have to mark this occasion, which is the day that Kodak stops selling Kodachrome, that wonderful color film immortalized in song by Paul Simon. Don’t feel sorry for Kodak, though. They are doing all right in the digital age, selling digital cameras & printers & stuff. But this does signal […]
These Heels Are Made For Walking
Published at: 05:06 pm - Saturday June 20 2009
I hope you like the new avatar. It’s a composite of a real photo of my legs, plus some catalog photos from an archery supply website. Those are my actual legs, and that is an actual tattoo on the right one, which I got a few weeks ago so that the only tattoos on my […]
Posted in: Art & Music, Diagnosis, Recurrence, Screening, Life & Mortality by Kathi adulthood, amazonia, avatar, cars, fashion, high heels, insurance, tattoos, women
What Goes Around Comes Around
Published at: 08:06 pm - Wednesday June 17 2009
Twenty-five years ago, Dr. Susan Love and I were distant neighbors in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston. She was starting to develop a wonderful reputation at nearby Faulkner Hospital as the go-to doctor for women facing breast cancer, and I was a young feminist activist working with various women’s organizations on issues relating to […]
Posted in: Art & Music, Life & Mortality, Making A Difference, My Work Life, Research by Kathi adulthood, breast cancer, healthcare, responsibility, women