OM What do I say? 3 Jan 20193 Jan 2019 What do I say... ...when I come face to face with the person the world failed...when I'm the person for whom everything went right? I'm one of two OM patients…
OM The Envoy of Mr. Cogito 21 Dec 201821 Dec 2018 I love and admire poetry, and wish I could write it. In those rare instances that I find a piece of writing that encapsulates a hugely complex emotional territory in…
OM To save time… 5 Nov 201814 Nov 2018 I have several t-shirts that are hand-me-downs from my husband. After one too many hot-wash-and-dries (a laundry requirement when I'm a cancer patient living with an elementary-age child and a…
OM The Five Recollections 31 Oct 201828 Feb 2019 I've read a fair bit about Buddhism, but this is the first time I've stumbled across these teachings summed up in quite this way. The Five Recollections are kinda youchie.…
OM The Cost of Cancer Treatment, Part 2 8 Oct 20188 Oct 2018 I've talked about this before. And I'm pleased to report that, despite their representative's assertion, BCBS has, in fact, been paying for my care. Originally, I was looking at anything…
OM Thrill of a Gain 21 Sep 201821 Sep 2018 A platitude is precisely what is left of a truth after it has been drained of all emotion. --Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind, P. 251 Positive thinking experts…
OM Resonance 4 Sep 20184 Sep 2018 One of the joys of being a compulsive reader is finding resonances between books I'm reading concurrently. If I'm cynical about this phenomenon, it's part confirmation bias and part "nothing…
OM The Poison Path 31 Jul 201811 Sep 2019 I've written about peacocks before. In Buddhism, the peacock is a good and powerful symbol. The ancient myth is that a peacock’s brilliant plumage is created by the peacock’s eating…
OM X Marks the Spot 3 May 20183 May 2018 In The Emperor of All Maladies, Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee wrote, "[T]he statistical confluence of a rare profession and a rare tumor [can] swiftly identif[y] the causal agent of [a] cancer."…
OM… Sermon on Getting Angry 29 Mar 201829 Mar 2018 "Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something." --The Man in Black, from The Princess Bride I'm in an odd place right now, in more ways…
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