Ronni Gordon

As a tennis fanatic, I am so happy to see Wimbledon back in full swing after its cancellation last year. The venerable grass-court tournament – lawn tennis officially – is...

I think I have a new least-favorite spot for skin cancer removal: squamous cell carcinoma on my nose. It’s the same spot where a big pimple appears during your teen...

After months of seeing my yoga teacher on a screen, through Zoom classes due to the pandemic, I was intrigued by the idea of doing the 75-minute class in her...

Now that I’ve had so much skin cancer, I can’t keep my mind from buzzing and beeping when I see someone doing a silly thing or when I hear about...

Thoughtless words can send you into a tailspin that lasts long after that person who spoke them has moved on to something else. Other words can have the opposite effect...

On the way home from my last trip to the Mohs surgery center, I said this little ditty to my boyfriend as we pulled out: “When God gave out noses...

Lipstick dries out my lips, and so I don’t wear it. But I do occasionally like to wear a tinted lip gloss. I’m not sure, though, if defining my lips...

It’s actinic keratosis, it’s squamous cell carcinoma, it’s...graft vs. host disease? I was pretty sure that the cluster of rough spots on my calf was more of the same, that...

The top of your head, under your hair, can be one of the trickiest places to have skin cancer, pre-cancer, or patches of flaky skin that you can’t identify. With...

I don’t, as a rule, read the notes from my doctors’ visits, but from time to time when I get an email saying, “You have received new test result information"...

If you are a person of a certain age, you grew up hearing that you should “air out” a cut or sore. I thought that also until a nurse told...

When the end of the world comes, hot showers will be among the first things to disappear, Ian McEwan wrote in his novel “Saturday” (2005). I think I know why...

Sometimes my mind spins around and can’t settle on an answer as to what is dry skin, what is a wart, what is actinic keratosis, and what is squamous cell...

I spent a ridiculous amount of time focusing on one little spot that turned out to be “just” an actinic keratosis (AK), which always makes me think of a weapon...

A friend who has been buying sun protective clothing said he had seen a lot of UPF labeling lately. He wondered why he had been seeing less SPF labeling. I...

A hat doesn’t do much good in a closet, or in the trunk of a car, but that’s where my two sun protection hats have lived. One with a very...

So, my squamous cell radar was finally off. A spot that I thought wasn’t a squamous cell carcinoma actually was one. But I wasn’t the only one fooled. A dermatologist...

I don’t know how long I’ve had the bottle of ketoconazole 2% shampoo laying around, but I know one thing for certain: It isn’t going to be useful unopened. One...

When I went to meet my boyfriend for a bike ride, I did a double-take. He was standing at the corner, holding his bike, and looking like...a bank robber. His...

As usual, I overpacked. And on top of that, I didn’t choose well for my trip to California, where it was much warmer. Let’s start with necklines. I need to...