Rae Sedgwick

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Cancer battle turns into dance
By Rae Sedgwick
November 26, 2008
It is said that we “battle” cancer. On some level, that may be true. There are days when it does feel like an all out war with chemotherapy a battalion in hand-to-hand combat.
Family line resembles N.Y. pretzel
By Rae Sedgwick
November 20, 2008
My family has a long lineage and the shape of a New York pretzel. We try to untangle it for anyone who will listen.
Learning to roar will come
By Rae Sedgwick
November 12, 2008
Somewhere in this country is a 12-year-old girl, sitting in a bath tub, razor in hand, beginning a rite of passage into young womanhood: preparing to shave her legs
Coming baldness ‘really cool’
By Rae Sedgwick
November 6, 2008
I don’t want people, particularly my young patients, to be afraid of the changes they see in me. I also don’t want them to be afraid of cancer.
Reflection spawns ballot choice
By Rae Sedgwick
October 30, 2008
It was following the movie “Secret Lives of Bees” that it became clear to me for whom I would vote in the upcoming presidential election. There is something about a life well lived and hard-fought for that I find appealing.
‘Secret Life of Bees’ film true to book
By Rae Sedgwick
October 23, 2008
“There is no perfect love, Lily,” Ms. August says to the 14-year-old filled with angst, who says of herself: “My whole life has been a hole, where my mother should have been.”
Beyond childhood frontiers
By Rae Sedgwick
October 16, 2008
I like fifth-graders; I particularly like fifth-grade boys. It is the age that we refer to as the last frontier of childhood.
Life’s prism shines light on cancer
By Rae Sedgwick
October 8, 2008
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month; boy am I aware.
The siren song of opera
By Rae Sedgwick
October 2, 2008
Once in a while life hands you a moment that you know will never come again; it is a moment one savors for as long as one is allowed to hold such moments.
Niece’s spouse enriches entire family
By Rae Sedgwick
September 25, 2008
“Bo Smith has altered the cinema landscape in Boston”, writes Ty Burner in the Sept. 19 Boston Globe. He is leaving Boston to become executive director of the Denver Film Society.

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