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The article reports on Ruth Oratz, who operates Art Deco desk at the Women's Oncology & Wellness Practice in Manhattan, New York City and also teaches medicine at New York University. She asks her patients about their jobs, parents, kids, the state of their marriage so that she can make a choice of chemo drug to a treatment schedule that leaves time for work, family, life. She says that diagnosis of breast cancer is complicated by dozens of factors.

The article reports on Magda Sayeg, owner of the clothing boutique, Raye, in Austin, Texas, and a prodigious knitter who turns things like park benches and parking meters into vibrant, yarn-covered sculptures.

An interview with author Katie Arnold Ratliff is presented. When asked when did she start reading, she said that she started reading when she was four. She discusses the good, bad and ugly process in writing novels. Ratliff advices young writers to never use the word thigh because it is a cheap way in injecting sex to the page.