Ruth's Medical-logical Meanderings

There has been a lot going on lately. In my personal life, there have been a lot of family events. My youngest daughter came to visit wi...

     Against the wishes of my daughters, I was in the subway tunnel at Lake Street in Chicago waiting for the Red Line to take me north t...

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim and in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, eac...

Today is my 18-month Cancerversary and I am in a celebratory mood! This is strange for me. Being a budding scholar of death studies does not...

In our weekly meetings, Father Bob and I discuss various things. Cancer is inevitably a regular topic. A couple of weeks ago, he asked me if...

Definition: Grace 1) refinement of movement; 2) courteous goodwill I have a few blogs that I follow, most of them cancer-related. Some of th...

I once had a friend tell me that I did not suffer fools lightly. I think that this is increasingly true. I have no tolerance for nonsense an...