The longest half hour of a woman’s life: the endless seconds between having your breasts painfully squeezed into the chilly, ominous mammography machine and......
I’d been in cataract denial for two years; I’d even rationalized, when I hit a bad tennis shot, that it was because of that “difficulty” in my left eye....
Candy Schulman's essays have been widely published, including The New York Times, Newsweek, Salon.com, Parents, and in several anthologies. She is an Associate Professor of Writing at The New School and has completed a memoir about caring for aging parents.