Ruth's Medical-logical Meanderings

Cancer has a way of making you focus on yourself like nothing else I’ve ever experienced. Your life, whether you admit it or not, is ...

and neither is yours. However, the mass murder of children, in whatever form, is. I encourage you to lift them and their families up to...

I work at a private Jesuit university and I love it. Every year, the university holds the nine-month-long "Spiritual Exercises in Eve...

Lung Cancer (and Pancreatic Cancer) Awareness Month is almost over. Like any ‘awareness month’, the end of it is a signal that the world...

Although a good movie and incredible book (that I highly recommend) about life in the poverty-stricken Ozarks (where I spent the last pa...

In 1988, Kim Basinger and Dan Aykroyd, and Alyson Hannigan acted (badly) in a fun little movie titled, My Step-Mother is an Alien ...

In my investigative reading about terminally ill people with cancer, there seems to be a fairy-tale type of quality given to those who hav...