10 Ways to Help a Friend with Cancer
Saying, “If you need my help, I’m here,” is a nice start, but many people don’t know what to ask for.
Slash, Burn and Poison: Cancer Words Matter
I was very careful about the words I chose to explain to my children what was happening to us.
Kissing Donny Goodbye
We both fought for our lives, for the right to see our kids grow up, but the odds were stacked against him from the start.
What the Kids Would Tell You
I was nervous to ask my teens what I did right and what I did wrong the summer (and fall) I had lymphoma when it came to parenting with cancer.
Children Really Aren’t All That Resilient
Somehow, our society has accepted as conventional wisdom that children have superior powers to work through emotional trauma on their own.
But What About My Cancer Awareness Month?
Go ahead and Think Pink. It would be nice, however, if sometimes you thought Red Instead.
Help Delete Blood Cancer with a Swab Party
A few weeks before the PET scan that would determine whether or not I was in remission from a deadly blood cancer, my brother asked me, “What happens if you’re not in remission?” “What were you thinking of getting me for my birthday?” I answered, and then explained that he was the number one candidate should […]
Overdue Permission from a Cancer Survivor
But sometimes we take this responsible sensibility too far, thinking that we’re being good people when really, we’re just stamping a giant DENIED on our psyches over and over and over again.
My Parent Has Cancer and it Really Sucks
Maya and Marc Silver understand what it’s like for the million or so teens whose parents have cancer each year.
