Thursday, September 25, 2008

The pink mists of October

As the pink mists of October—National Breast Cancer Awareness Month—close in, blurring our vision and turning our disease into a kind of designer accessory, I'd like to direct any readers I have (two? three?) to a beacon—not of hope but of the clarifying light of common sense. I don't know why it took me so long to discover Barbara Ehrenreich's essay "Welcome to Cancerland," but I've found it now and want to share it with you:

http://bcaction.org/index.php?page=welcome-to-cancerland-2

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