November 2007 - Posts

• The breast shrine

  I've had breast cancer and hate pink ribbons. I know the ribbons mean something to a lot of people. But to me they trivialize a life-changing, and sometimes life-taking, illness. One of my doctors gave me a pink ribbon pin the day after he told me Read More... Posted Saturday, November 10, 2007 3:54 AM by SherryWood | 3 Comments Filed under: News

• Tables and chairs

  Who would have guessed that during the 1960s, student protesters at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., spent a night on the table on which the Portsmouth Peace Treaty was signed? That's one of the tidbits I ran across while reporting Read More... Posted Saturday, November 03, 2007 5:39 AM by SherryWood | 0 Comments Filed under: News