And while I'm trying to get somewhere else unknown glitches load Profgirrrrl in my browser. I scroll down and read this:

Graduate school is a bleak time, both personally and financially, for many people. I can't even imagine being in graduate school and dealing with the added heartbreak and stress of a terminally ill spouse (cancer) with mounting medical bills and a health care system that is largely failing to cover those bills and keeps benefits that we all pay for like Social Security and Medicaid out of reach for 2 years (at which point the Medicaid is useless) because a grad student's salary is just a touch higher than the limit. I'm not kidding.

Sigh. But this is what badger is dealing with.

I follow the link and the first post I read makes me going through archives and jumping over links and crying as I read about the fragility of life and the durability of stone and finding a call for action and getting my credit card out and thinking about the kindness of strangers as one more community indicator (also here)...

May be it's only because cancer left scars in my own family, but I guess there is more to it.