My 15 minutes of fame

A few months ago I got an e-mail from a writer with the Globe and Mail, asking me if I would be willing to be interviewed about being a cancer survivor, and I said “well, sure”. The folks at the Globe were really thorough and conscientous and followed up lots of little details over and over again.

Today, that article came out. Much to my surprise, it’s the cover story of the weekend edition of the paper.
Here I am on Galiano, trying to find a copy of the weekend Globe, when there are only 10 copies delivered to the entire island. As luck would have it, I was able to snag two copies. Heh.

You can read the online version of the article here:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/health/

I suggest you check out the slideshow. You will not get to see my now famous cancer survivor tattoo, but you can see a picture of me and Elaine on our last holiday together and a lovely shot that Elaine took of me playing with a dog on the beach on that same trip.

It’s great to have been asked to participate in this and Erin Anderssen and Moe, the photo editor at the Globe, were really considerate and smart and sensitive and just all-around good to deal with.

But my greatest accomplishment in all this is having created a situation where the Globe and Mail used the term “butch dyke” in one of its articles. I am told this has never happened before and I am all for pushing the envelope when it comes to respected institutions and language and gender and identity.

Please check out the article and also the slideshow. It certainly isn’t the whole story, but it is one part of my story and there are a lot of other really important stories in this article as well.

Over and out from the island.