Tango for awareness - Vive la Milonga "PINK" edition

My good friend, neighbor, tango dancer and cancer survivor Eunha organizes this milonga (tango dance party) every month. Tomorrow it will honor October, the breast cancer awareness month.

For details of direction and public transportation, please check the

website or go to the Facebook event page.
All proceeds of this event will be donated to 15-40 Connection

Be realistic, demand the impossible!

I have two goals:

• Live to Alberto Dassieu's age
• When I turn 73, dance like him
  

I used to think that Osvaldo Pugliese's "A Evaristo Carriego" is both the most beautiful and the most difficult tango to dance to. But señor Dassieu makes it look so easy!

Treasuring the little things

Having a continuous-flow fluorouracil pump seriously restricts your abilities and you learn to treasure the little things. Like taking a shower. At least M hospital's protocol is to disconnect the pump on Fridays and reconnect on Mondays, giving almost 3 days of unobstructed enjoyment. At the B hospital where I was treated before they took the words "continuous flow" seriously, replacing the battery/chemo bag every week but never ever disconnecting. For over a month I had to stick to baths.

Radiating to Captain Beefheart

The radiology folks at the M hospital have Pandora radio going. They asked what I would like to hear while being treated and out of the blue I asked for Captain Beefheart. Getting irradiated to Abba Zaba is an interesting experience...

Performance tomorrow

I will be performing tomorrow at the European Talents event at Om Restaurant in Cambridge.

And despite the fact that my name starts with an S and my partner's name with an M, we will NOT be dancing to "Masochism Tango"!

Healing Tango

I am an Argentine tango dancer. I am a cancer survivor. Tango will make me cancer-free. Step by step, paso a paso. With each ocho, each cruzada, each boleo, each arrastre , and even, I dare say, with each gancho, cancer will be eradicated from my body, one malignant cell after another. Here's to HEALING TANGO!

Whatever happens, there's always hope. Never say never, or as the Hungarian actress and singer Judit Hernádi sang, "Sohase mondd".