There But for the Grace of God …

blindsided.gifA friend of Susan’s recommended Richard Cohen’s Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness. TV producer Cohen has fought MS for decades and had bouts with colon cancer. His effort to put his head and his life together is one of the most heartening pieces of personal journalism I’ve ever encountered. The late Christopher Reeve called the book “brutally honest”—it’s surely that, too. Cohen’s battle with disease began when he was just 25.