Here's your astonishment for the day: Two friends of mine have, between them, come up with some very unusually jewelry: He grows the "jewels" and she makes them into lovely wearable art.

Behold, my new headshot, fresh as today. It's a little toothy, but I took it myself, having a tripod, a digital camera with a self-timer, and being, since childhood, irrepressibly independent. Everything is easier, I discovered early in life, with good books and tools.

After perhaps two months and five contract revisions, the healthcentral.com website and I have come to an agreement. After today, I will be doing my breast cancer blog on its breast cancer new page.

One of the hardest things I learned in therapy was what it means to take care of myself. One of the ways I do that is, guilt or no guilt, to get out of Michigan at least once before summer.