The diagnosis

Tammy Donroe, who normally writes about food, reports she's been diagnosed with breast cancer:

... I've struggled with whether or not to bring this up on the blog. This is a food blog, after all, not a cancer blog. And I don't want this to become a cancer blog (not that there's anything wrong with that). But this blog is about my life through food, and if I censor my life too much, then it doesn't feel honest. Plus, logistically speaking, it was going to be tricky to hide it. Sooner or later you were going to wonder why all of my dinners of late have been composed of 50% potato chips and 50% tequila. The increased unexplained absences might seem suspicious given my previously consistent blogging schedule. And the mood swings. My god, the mood swings. PMS is dreadfully boring by comparison. ...