Sunday, December 18, 2011 in Austin, TX was overcast and cold. It was the kind of day that encouraged hot cocoa, a warm robe, some channel flipping and being lazy. But it was also my birthday, so I knew it was my Day to Plan. I announced to my husband: Today is the day… Continue reading The Most Wonderful Dog in All the Land by Jackie Widen
The great Greek physician and teacher Hippocrates (460 BC-370 BC) described several kinds of cancer, referring to them with the Greek word "carcinos", meaning crab or crayfish. This name comes from the appearance of the cut surface of a solid malignant tumor, with the "veins stretched out on all sides as the animal the crab has its feet, whence it derives its name."