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Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the State of the Union, and the Empty Chair
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyOn display during the State of the Union speech was the vacant chair that would have been occupied by Ariz. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who could not attend because she was in a hospital recovering from a bullet wound to the head. Recuperation could take as long as a year. The empty chair got to everyone, myself included. What got to me even more was the photograph of her husband, Mark Kelly, holding her hand in the hospital as the couple watched the speech on television. I could imagine what might be on the left side of that cropped photo. Nine years ago I lay in a hospital bed with a ...
Elizabeth Edwards: Topic No. 1 for a Coupla Sick Chicks Sitting Around Talking
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyThe post you are reading is not the way this project was supposed to begin. My friend Julie and I had talked about a project with the working title: "Coupla Sick Chicks" (with apologies to the 1981 play, "A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking"). But we had no concrete plans. That's what the meeting last Wednesday in a Kansas coffee shop was all about. I'm a nine-year survivor of stage III ovarian cancer, and my longtime friend Julie Levine is also a cancer survivor. I only brought the camera to show Julie how it works. I brought a yellow legal pad. I was just going to take notes this ...
A Magical Life Cut Short, but Lived on Her Own Fierce Terms
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyIt seems like yesterday. It seems like a hundred years ago. After my friend Linda Elizondo died of cancer last week, her sister-in-law sent me an old photograph which, she thought, captured Lindy's joie de vivre. "A magical life cut short," Lindy's sister-in-law wrote, "but lived on her own fierce terms." I had taken the picture 35 years ago. I don't remember taking it. Not a very natural pose. (Is it any wonder I didn't last long in photojournalism?) What is Lindy doing? What's with the unopened bottle of wine leaning against her leg? The answers are lost to history. Except for the color ...
Cancer and the Color Wars: Pink? Teal? Purple?
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyThe late summer teal dusk of September is leaving us. You did know that September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, and that teal is the ribbon color, didn't you? And of course you saw the woman with Teal Toes. Oh I guess not, since she's in Chicago, and you're in Cincinnati. But you must have seen the teal fountains around town. They're everywhere! Why, entire cities have colored their oceanfronts teal in honor of ovarian cancer survivors. Coastal cities aside, teal has a long way to go to catch up with pink. It's almost October, aka "pink nausea" in some circles. October is Breast ...
My Own Private 9/11
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyNine years ago on the morning of September 11, 2001, I turned on the TV to check the weather. My default station, CNN, broadcast a huge gaping hole in the World Trade Center, with black smoke billowing out. I yelled, "Robert, come here! Something horrible has happened." If I recall correctly, we were watching live TV as the tower collapsed. My husband and I knew we were experiencing the biggest story of our lives. Robert is a journalist, and he headed off to work at The Kansas City Star. Around noon a nurse called me. "How about surgery tomorrow?" Four weeks earlier, a scan showed a mass ...
Two Weddings and an E-mail
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyAs some may have heard, Chelsea Clinton is getting married on Saturday in a multimillion-dollar wedding. People have said the event is excessive, especially in these tough times. Others, the U.K. Guardian's, Paul Harris, observe, after the family scandals she endured, Chelsea deserves an extraordinary wedding, and still others react with a yawn. For a few, the yawn morphs into a sneer. In the comment section of the Guardian, Harris was upbraided for his sycophancy: "You write informed pieces about Detroit and then end up writing this dreadful crap about the Clinton daughter. Were you hoping ...
Christie Buckner, They Oughta Name a Drink After You
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyCancer survivors are reluctant to search for old friends with whom they've lost touch. We fear what we may find. Eventually, though, curiosity gets the best of us. Sometimes we get good news. More often than not, we get a death notice. ...
The Silent Killer Takes Out a Woman Who Would Not Shut Up
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyChristie Buckner was an ordinary woman, so the world took little notice of her death last October. ...
In Defense of Sean Penn
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyThe outspoken director, actor and political activist Sean Penn is no stranger to controversy. Now, however, he's insulted the rectal cancer folks. At least, that's the conventional wisdom. But what did Penn actually say? In response to CBS reporter Lara Logan's question on how Penn felt about criticism of celebrities in Haiti, Penn replied, "Do I hope that those people die screaming of rectal cancer, yeah... But I'm not going to spend a lot of energy on it." ...
The Bra-ha-ha
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyRegarding my previous post My Bra? Color Me Furious, which has clocked in at 1,000+ comments: I guess I hit a nerve. ...
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