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 There are no life lessons that I learned through my 6+ years with cancer that could have prepared me for this last cancer recurrence. In April 2025 I was paddle boat racing, working out at the gym and only 2 months later I started to run out of energy dragging myself...

I was 12 years old when Barbara Streisand’s song “People who need People” came out. It seemed to me that she was saying that needy people are actually lucky, and that baffled me because, for me, being needy was anything but! I felt inadequate and demoralized at all...

    “I’m going to pray for you, you will beat this, Marilyn, you are so strong, you will beat it, and you will be well. I guarantee it.” My most recent cancer recurrence upsets my dear friend, Molly.      I listen with an interesting combination of irritation and...

I wrote this in February 2023, the opening chapter of my memoir, but given the current circumstances, it needs to be revisited. I realize my lymph nodes are growing again, in the old familiar places at my groin, and in some new areas, at my neck. I keep touching them,...

 Recently I was frantically speeding along mid-town Manhattan to meet my sister. Weaving through crowds like a maniac, a thought popped into my mind. When I was learning about narcissistic disorders in graduate school, I asked my therapist if that was my diagnosis....

Part 1: Last Man Standing Having vision in one eye created a plethora of problems growing up. I was nearsighted, had academic issues, wore thick ugly glasses and in addition, my poor vision made me terrible at sports as my depth perception was impaired. It was a time...