It’s great how we inspire one another!

Thanks, Janine. Hmmm. I wonder which will come first for me: Twitter or NaNoWriMo? I’m trying to make room for NaNoReMo (National Novel Reading Month), but it seems pretty hopeless!

That’s a challenge I cannot even begin to imagine (as you well know from our fourth-grade forays into violin)! Please send a link to your composition if you can. So good to hear from you, Nancy!

You have been a model and inspiration to me in your blogging and commenting, and I am trying to find the time to get better. Good luck with the healing and the unpacking. I trust that writing and yoga will come soon.

Thanks, Wendy, you too!

The feeling is mutual, including the conviction that Word Press has it in for us. As far as I know, though, no research dollars are going into the WP-cancer connection. In my case, I knew and had told my doctors that BRCA existed among some first cousins and their kids. I barely knew these people. My father died of pancreatic cancer, but we always assumed it was his out-of-control diabetes and morbid obesity that were culprits. Because of the family history I had disavowed and the unusual cell type of my uterine cancer, the doctors recommended testing, and it was covered. I hate it for my daughter’s sake, too–the subject of another essay I am currently trying to get published somewhere important. At least with Myriad’s lock on the gene testing ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, costs are coming down–but still outrageously expensive. I never wanted to have to write about cancer, but it has been my best and easiest muse, not to mention good therapy into the bargain. You keep writing, too!

I learned awhile ago that if I want readers of my blog I have to read AND comment on others’ blogs. I try to model what I want