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Staying Alive: Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
What we need is advocacy: people to stand up and demand funding for cancer research be restored, for more investment in mRNA vaccine technology for cancer treatment and regular cancer testing as part of routine preventive care.
So, You Want a Cure for Cancer
I’m a volunteer. And like all Guinea pigs, er opportunists, I represent a part of science that doesn’t get anywhere near enough attention. And why does it cost so much!
What in the World …
The world and the character should feel like they naturally fit together. Their deep knowledge of their own reality thus helps make the extraordinary stand out. Likewise, the reader should almost immediately feel immersed in that world and see logic in the characters and their reactions.
The Quiet Hero
The heroes of our fiction, of our real world, often are ordinary folk thrust into the extraordinary: and they persevere. We are the heroes we need. We are the solution to our problems.
Grace Notes
I sat down the other day thinking, I want to find those grace notes again. There’s something missing in my way of looking at things. I still see beauty, but I don’t let it resonate. I witness moments, and while they may make me laugh or think, somehow it feels less profound.
TMI, Part 2
I’m somehow, potentially, making a difference. It kind of makes the misery a tiny bit more palatable. A tiny bit.
Certainty – Just Enough to Be Dangerous
I spend way too much time on social media pointing out fake stories and posting links to fact checkers. I’m that person. If we want to survive these times of misinformation it’s more important than ever to be media literate.
The Game’s Afoot
A plot that immerses us so deeply, that builds characters and a world that can suspend our disbelief and take us there and make us want to linger, is the perfect escape.
Health, Grief, and Climate Uncertainty (Part 3)
Earth is killing us. Not on purpose, mind you (though who would blame it?). While death is part of the natural order, there really isn’t much natural about this. This is our doing, aided by the physical, geological and other natural cycles responding in feedback to our actions.
Catalyzing Uncertainty (Part 2)
In my last blog post I asked “What will be our mark? Our legacy? What will we do in the face of this crisis that Peter Friederici calls a "climate breakdown."?" I wondered what any one person could do, what I could do to make some mark on this crisis before I die....
