ANNE DIMOCK

The chemotherapy was the worst of it.   How would I get through this?  Some suggested visualization – to see myself on a serene isle, or bathe myself in healing rays of light. 

So I invented him – Señor Adria – and named for the crimson poison they inject...

Is it my imagination or has the Pink Ribbon circus set up fewer tents this year? Maybe breast cancer survivor identity recedes more and more each year and I don’t notice the emblems, the hype, the pink merchandise.

This year I mark 20 years of breast cancer survivorship...

Notable Greek-American Dr. George Papanicolaou did not win a Nobel Prize in Medicine, though he was nominated several times. He got a 13 cent stamp and name recognition.  Women the world over laud him or curse him and know him as the one behind that annual/bi-annual/wh...

What if you had more than one vote to cast? I think you do.

I’m a professional fundraiser and I’ve worked in the nonprofit sector my entire career. I’ve raised money for many wonderful organizations – anti-poverty, equal rights, health care, affordable housing, educatio...

(Police squad car pulls over a car with a broken tail light. The two officers address the driver of the car.)

“Did I do something wrong, officer?”

“Broken tail light.”

“Just happened, officer, in the parking lot at the Lucky store.”

“License and registration, please.”

“Got...

2015 began with a New Year’s potluck dinner party among a group of strangers, and ended with going to a New Year’s Eve dance party at an old movie theatre with a hippie jam band playing covers. In between were 110 other episodes that I called “Social Risks”--things I...

Owen Labrie doesn’t need 11 years in prison—but he needs something more than a gap year of service.

Whether he ever gets to go on to an ivy league college and pursue a divinity degree as he originally planned, Owen Labrie’s sentencing is an opportunity to change the d...

I’m having a birthday soon and birthdays always bring introspection. I’m still a working girl and will be for some time, but my thoughts are drifting towards a new threshold—still years away--when I may not need to organize my life around gainful employment.

I’m lookin...

Fathers—it’s how women first get to know about men. They are the first Y chromosome introduced into our lives, and they invoke comparisons with all other “Y”s thereafter.

In honor of Father’s Day, I’m pointing you towards a book you should read—Every Father’s Daughter,...