My Multifocal Life
How Are You?
Bobby Baker’s spectacular Diary Drawings focus on her struggles with mental illness, notably borderline personality disorders. Here, the split experienced in her mind is figured
September 20, 2012
My Multifocal Life
To Tell. Not to Tell
It’s hard to tell people that you have cancer. No one knows what to say and those who care feel sad or scared. But not
July 24, 2012
My Multifocal Life
Did You Smoke?
When people learn I have lung cancer, I’m invariably asked whether I smoked. I usually confess and say yes, I perfected the art of smoking
July 18, 2012
Welcome. Some musings on my current preoccupations with the worlds of illness and the worlds of books, the vicissitudes of living with cancer and the need now, in my eighties, to imagine what new writing might be.