Making art lets us articulate things that are bothering us. In doing so, it helps us heal.
Art and Healing (The Waiting Room)
Posted by Sherry Best on March 20, 2012
Lost in the Stacks: The Foremost Good Fortune
Posted by Julie Nelson on July 5, 2011
Imagine being in a foreign country and being diagnosed with a potentially terminal illness. Imagine not having the words to describe your concerns and being faced with a culture which had different ideas about treatment. The Foremost Good Fortune by Susan Conley is a poignant, sometimes funny memoir about a bewildered outsider confronting her own mortality.
Health memoir: Lopsided: How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting
Posted by Lissa Staley on May 20, 2011
A cancer memoir unlike any other, Meredith is by turns scathing, bitter, sarcastic, peevish, neurotic, and above all hilarious as her experience as a patient allows her to digress on the dilettante’s life she’s led and the assorted characters she’s met.
