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My abusive husband is dying and I have a lover. How good do I have to be?

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[button link=”mailto:advice@carytennis.com” newwindow=”yes”] Write for Advice[/button] Cary’s classic column Tuesday, JUL 21, 2003 What do I owe him? Dear Cary, Last year I went to visit a divorce lawyer, having finally got up the nerve to end a 29-year marriage (I’m 49) to a physically and emotionally abusive man. I had been seeing a wonderful man for some time, and we...

She asked for a divorce, then found a lump in her breast

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  Cary’s classic column from MONDAY, DEC 22, 2008   I’ve been dating her husband, but now she wants him back!     Dear Cary, For the past seven months, I have been dating and falling in love with a man who is in the final stages of his divorce. After six years of marriage, it’s been a year and a half since they were together. Throughout their marriage she’d repeatedly cheated...

Hooray! I’m covered! (by Covered California)

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Wow. I just completed my online application for health insurance in California, and I am amazed how easy and trouble-free it was. And now I can’t believe so many Republican politicians worked so hard to deny me this. As a person who survived a potentially fatal cancer in 2009, who had surgery and a long recovery, who has fought to get the care I need and was concerned after losing my job at...

Hanging with Judith Lindbloom at El Farolito

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Judith Lindbloom, abstract expressionist, El Farolito on 24th Street in the Mission for lunch after the meeting, talking about William James,  the God thing, William James says, Look, we are scientific men, Christian men, honest men, and we cannot deny what we see: People are having experiences; they have these experiences of another world and then they change. What are we to call this? How can...

After cancer will I ever be the same?

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Dear Cary, Last year, at the age of 29, I was diagnosed with a rare kind of thyroid cancer. I was halfway through graduate studies and was just about to embark on a year of research as a student, in Central Asia, where I wanted to explore a new region, do some neat environmental work, and enjoy the adventure. A quick recap: a handful of days before my plane took off from a city in North America...

I want to strangle stupid people who say stupid things about Obamacare

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[button link=”mailto:advice@carytennis.com” newwindow=”yes”] Write for Advice[/button] Dear Reader, Right now I’m writing this column here on my own site on Tuesdays and Thursdays. You can bookmark  to always find it. I’ll announce it on Facebook and Twitter whenever it goes up, and we’ll send out an email newsletter about it, too. Might miss a day or two...

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