Kindness Matters | National Donor Day
Valentine’s Day is also National Donor Day, so we’re celebrating the loving gifts of organ, tissue, bone marrow, blood & platelet donations. [...]
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Personal Essays | My Body: The Struggle Within
I homeschool my son, which works very well for me because a lot of my time is spent in my pajamas. Occasionally, though, we actually venture outside and go places. The other [...]
Personal Essays | You are Seven of Nine
Making friends is not my strong suit. I like to live on the edge of things, watching and thinking, only occasionally venturing into conversations and putting myself out [...]
Letter from the Editor | #8 “This Was Going to Be About Something Else”
Dear Sweatpants & Coffee Tribe, It’s been a while, huh? We have some catching up to do. I wasn’t going to write about cancer this time, because there is so much more [...]
Sweatpants & Sanity | The Space Between: Cancer and Your Mental Health
IAt 35, I never thought I’d write “I’m suicidal” on an intake form at an oncologist’s office. I had never been seriously depressed or anxious in my life. But there [...]
Sweatpants & Pop Culture | A Monster Calls – Interview with Liam Neeson, J.A. Bayona and Patrick Ness
By Lesley Gayle A Monster Calls, starring Lewis MacDougall and Liam Neeson as the monster, is a beautiful and emotional tale of a boy struggling with growing up and with [...]
Sweatpants & Beauty | Beauty Products for Badass Cancer Warriors
Sweatpants & Coffee's resident beauty expert offers tips and product recommendations for those fighting cancer. [...]
Two Weeks : A Reflection
By Diane Dean-Epps Some people are connectors, some people are splitters, and some people are adapters. No, this isn’t the beginning of an inappropriately placed holiday ad [...]
Firestorm
by Lisa Pawlak The same morning my world was set ablaze, I slept in, peacefully, eventually waking up to the sound of my phone ringing and the smell of smoke in the air. The [...]
