Cue Willie Nelson ...

For whatever reason(s) (and I have speculated about this before), most of the people who travel in and out my door here are women.  If you're a woman, and this is one of your stops on a regular basis, I'm just going to guess it's because you either like what I have to say or like the way I say it or some combination of both, and whatever the reason, you're always welcome.

Now, go away.

Well, don't go away away.  Go here.

I'm doing you two favours with this.  First, I am sending you to one of the wittiest, most literate, and most thoughtful writers I have stumbled upon in my travels on the Internets - her name is Linda, although thousands of readers know her as Miss Alli from Television Without Pity. 

And secondly, I am sending you directly to the latest entry on her personal weblog, which - if it doesn't save your life - ought to at least change it in any number of ways, all of them for the better.  Yes, it's that good.

Now, shoo.  Nothing more to see here.  Read the entire post, then come back and thank me when you're done.

Comments

[whfropera]

and those of us without health insurance at the age of 40 (ahem) one, take those dice in hand and roll 'em again...

-but we also remember to go hug everyone too!

:)Thanks, Nils.

[Effie]

I'm back to say thanks....I needed that!

[wordgirl]

Thanks for the kick in the ass! I've gone to get my boobs pressed every year since I was 38. I haven't made this year's appointment, so I best get off my rear end and do so. As we speak I have a cousin whose breast cancer is now in her brain. The clock is ticking for her and it makes me very angry. You've done a good thing here, Nilbo. I'll pay it forward.

[Squirl]

I've had lumps before. Thank God they were all benign, but I didn't know until they were checked.

I know some women who would rather not know. How can you do that? If it's bad, then you can start treatment. If you leave it, then, who knows???

Thanks for posting this one.

[sheryl]

I recently went through something very similar... though the period of not being sure if it was cancer or an auto-immune disease, or nothing, lasted about 12 weeks. The experience came at a good time for me, a good time to grow, not an easy time. And it changed my life forever.

[Jodi]

Thank you. :o)

[eclectic]

OK, you're right. Thank you! Happy '06!

[Steverino]

No womanly dials here. It's all manly knob.

I stop by every now and then to see what's shakin'.