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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 ...
She Had a Job, a Boyfriend and a Brain Tumor, Back When Reality TV Was Real
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyFor a moment in time, she was pediatric resident Dr. Marnie Rose at Memorial Hermann in Houston. I got to know her a little during my first, tumultuous year of recovery from ovarian cancer. Dr. Rose was on TV. Back in those days I was combing the schedule for any reality show that slithered its way to the tube. There among the dreck of the early 2000s (guilty pleasures "Mr. Personality," et al., I'm looking at you) was the lovely Ms. Rose in "Houston Medical," an ABC show that featured doctors, patients and their families. The program, shot over the course of a year, ran for six episodes in ...
ACORN's Bureaucratic Ballet: The Coda
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyPerhaps some service organizations are meant to die natural -- or even self-inflicted -- deaths.The artist Marcel Duchamp put it this way: "After 40 or 50 years a picture dies, because its freshness disappears. . . . There's a huge difference between a Monet today, which is black as anything, and a Monet 60 or 80 years ago, when it was brilliant, when it was made. . . . Men are mortal; pictures too." I assume that when ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) got started some 40 years ago, it was with the best of intentions. However, recent news suggests the organization ...
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