The simple act of cleaning out my voicemail messages leads to an unexpected surprise on Valentine's Day. (phone message): “Hi Ell. It’s Dad. We're getting ready to go down and get something to eat. I thought about you and I miss you and I want you to call me as soon...
Self-esteem and self-help
From Both Sides (Part 4: Conclusion)
A memoir about the author’s challenges with cancer, both in her research, and her own… (published in Bewildering Stories, 2019) Here is a link to the Youtube video! PART 4 Conclusion When I walked into the room where the ultrasound was to be performed, I was...
From Both Sides (Part 3)
A memoir about the author’s challenges with cancer, both in her research, and her own… (published in Bewildering Stories, 2019) Here is a link to the Youtube video! PART 3 I was scheduled to meet next with a surgeon through Harvard Vanguard. He had dark features...
From Both Sides (Part 2)
A memoir about the author’s challenges with cancer, both in her research, and her own… (published in Bewildering Stories, 2019) Here is a link to the Youtube video! PART 2 A biopsy was scheduled, a whopping ten days from my mammogram and ultrasound Danse Macabre...
From Both Sides (Part 1)
A memoir about the author's challenges with cancer, both in her research, and her own... (published in Bewildering Stories, 2019) Here is a link to the Youtube video! PART 1 I was asked on several occasions if I or "they" (the medical doctors) knew how I got cancer,...
Who’s Frying Baloney? The Joy of Writing About Sucky Experiences.
Poor North Dakota: One woman's journey from geek to geeky beauty queen. by Ellen Weisberg and Kelly Gousios (Published in The Writing Disorder.com: A Literary Journal, Spring 2011 issue.) Link to the Youtube video of "Poor North Dakota"! As I wrapped the unopened...
Full-length, multilingual translations of “From Both Sides” :
Ellen’s award-winning cancer memoir, From Both Sides (Youtube Video), describing one person with cancer, with two perspectives—that of the cancer researcher and that of the cancer patient—has been translated into multiple languages and circulated...