Cancer

Don’t say good luck

September 20, 2026

Adam Sandler has a new movie on Netflix. He doesn’t star in it – he’s one of the producers – but it features his daughter Sunny in the lead role. My wife, Jody, and I have been big fans of Sandler’s less slapstick turns – he was hilarious in “You’re So Not Invited to My […]

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Say yes

August 22, 2026

Jim Carrey starred in a movie called “Yes Man” where he must say “yes” to any request or bad things will happen. I’m trying the same trick.

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Revisiting Chinese medicine

August 8, 2026

As my medical maladies started mounting up, I did something I never do. I turned to alternative medicine. Chinese herbs in particular. I’ve had a love/hate relationship with complementary medicine. I’ve never gotten much out of acupuncture in the past. Massage feels good but doesn’t last. Homeopathy seems more Western than complementary but was devised […]

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Living in Limbo Land

July 26, 2026

“You look pregnant,” my daughter Merav joked upon seeing my belly. But with my belly full of either gas or fluid, either I needed surgery or cancer treatment was back as an opt

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Ten years left to live

June 27, 2026

What would you do if you had just ten years left to live? How would that change where you spent your time and what you chose to do?

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My curly hair

June 14, 2026

Here’s one side effect I never expected after cancer treatments: curly hair. I shouldn’t have been that surprised: Hair growing back curly after chemo is a fairly common experience. My friend Laura Ben-David, who died in 2025 after a long battle with ovarian cancer, sported some lovely curls in her final days. My new curls […]

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