3/25/2013 – Saving for Retirement as an Act of Wild Optimism

“When I was 30, the ovarian cancer I’d had as a child returned after a 20-year hiatus. The new diagnosis arrived dramatically, when a trip to the emergency room revealed a tumor that was causing internal bleeding. During the week I spent in intensive care, my son, Leo, stopped speaking aloud and talked only in a whisper. He was almost 4.”

Read the full article at The New York Times.