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February 2020

  • 09: It’s Been Ten Years Since My Breast Cancer Diagnosis (24)

September 2019

  • 23: Did You Share Your Breast Cancer Diagnosis With Others? (11)
  • 18: Things I Talk About When I’m Out Walking (7)
  • 14: It’s Groundhogs Day (2)
  • 03: Toddler Dreams (8)

August 2019

  • 26: The Open Cupboard Food Pantry: Supporting Those in Need in Our Community (3)
  • 19: Nancy’s Point: Breast Cancer Blog Hop – Meet the Author of My Left Breast (10)

May 2019

  • 29: The Pets Are Now The Kids And Other Musings Of An Empty Nester (7)
  • 04: Attending the National Breast Cancer Coalition Summit in DC (2)

April 2019

  • 04: How Having Expectations Has Shaped My Existence (4)

February 2019

  • 25: How To Raise Kids In A Tech-Obsessed World (7)
  • 09: The Barnes Foundation (2)
  • 01: Obsessed With Reading (2)

January 2019

  • 28: Visiting The 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City (6)

October 2018

  • 22: Why October Gets Me Thinking About Recurrence (13)
  • 15: Determining Whether Or Not To Get A Port For Chemotherapy: Why I Wish I’d Gotten One (11)
  • 01: Where I’ll Be Donating My Money This October For Breast Cancer Awareness Month (6)

April 2018

  • 22: Spring Has Sprung! (10)

December 2017

  • 24: Merry Christmas! (4)

October 2017

  • 01: A Breast Cancer Super Hero (8)

February 2017

  • 10: The White Horse of Ireland (2)

January 2017

  • 05: Maybe I’ll Become A Jazz Dancer (9)
  • 02: Life Lessons From Tucker (12)

October 2016

  • 15: Bob Dylan: A Well Deserved Nobel Prize Winner (5)
  • 02: My Personal Relationship With The Month Of October (2)

September 2016

  • 25: Making Good Choices (14)

August 2016

  • 10: Cancer Was Not a Gift & It Didn’t Make Me a Better Person: Book Review (3)

July 2016

  • 15: Word Of The Day: Meditate (14)

May 2016

  • 24: Word Of The Day: Oncologist (10)
  • 05: Parenting a College Student: Balancing Guidance and Independence (15)

April 2016

  • 12: Empower Your Breast Cancer Advocacy | HealtheVoices 2016 Conference (5)
  • 04: Beyond the Pink Moon: Empowering Breast and Ovarian Cancer Support Group (8)

March 2016

  • 22: What To Expect During A Core Needle Biopsy (8)

February 2016

  • 27: Time To Throw Away The College Guides (10)

January 2016

  • 28: Taught How To Fly (6)
  • 06: An Open Letter To Myself About Breast Cancer (9)

November 2015

  • 09: Remembering Grandma Schmidt (20)

September 2015

  • 24: Who Else Remembers Tony Home Perms? (6)

August 2015

  • 28: Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book: Newly Updated 6th Edition Just Released (4)

July 2015

  • 22: The Last Leg Of the Great French Adventure: Normandy (6)
  • 15: What I’ve Been Reading This Summer (13)

June 2015

  • 25: A Global Phenomenon: the Man Bun (3)
  • 23: The Great French Adventure: Last Day in Paris (4)
  • 14: The Great French Adventure: Trip to the Local Gendarmerie (4)
  • 12: The Great French Adventure: Part 3 (2)
  • 07: The Great French Adventure: Part 2 (8)
  • 05: The Great French Adventure: Part 1 (12)

May 2015

  • 06: Did I Do A Good Job Parenting My Kids? (27)

April 2015

  • 20: What You Need To Know About Your Chemo Regimen (11)
  • 13: Cure Diva Is A Wonderful Resource For Women Going Through Breast Cancer (10)

March 2015

  • 29: How Angelina Jolie Pitt’s Decision Can Help Us Become Stronger Healthcare Advocates For Ourselves (17)
  • 21: Ken Burns’ “Cancer: The Emperor Of All Maladies” To Premiere on PBS March 30 – April 1, 2015 (19)
  • 17: Bitches Get Stuff Done – BAMC15 (24)

January 2015

  • 20: My 5 Year Remission Day (36)

December 2014

  • 15: A Trip To The Oncologist (31)
  • 11: Finding The Right Plastic Surgeon For Reconstruction (24)

November 2014

  • 25: A Thanksgiving Turkey Story (12)
  • 21: I Used To Do Life. Now I Experience Life. (16)
  • 12: I’m Just About Ready To Kick Gwyneth Paltrow In the Teeth (24)

October 2014

  • 23: Mom, Can You Make Me Some Shrimp? (14)
  • 18: The Beauty Of Morning Rituals Post-Cancer (20)
  • 16: The BBN Foundation: Breaking Bad News the Right Way (2)
  • 12: 13 Facts Everyone Should Know About Metastatic Breast Cancer (8)
  • 09: Why I Fell In Love With Dr. Susan Love (11)
  • 05: The Faces Of Breast Cancer (10)
  • 02: My Left Breast Site Redesign! (22)

September 2014

  • 12: Becoming A Parent Changed The Way I Saw My Own Parents (19)
  • 05: The Top 5 Ways To Prepare For Dropping Your Child Off At College (13)

August 2014

  • 06: My Visit to The Mount – Edith Wharton’s Estate in Lenox, Massachusetts (12)

July 2014

  • 31: A Book to Help You Prepare for Chemotherapy: “Getting Past the Fear” by Nancy Stordahl (7)
  • 03: How To Get A Teenager To Clean Their Room (Or Not) (18)

June 2014

  • 30: Makeup For Women 40+ (6)
  • 27: Cleaning the Pool After A Mastectomy (27)
  • 12: Overcoming Fear and Obsession After Breast Cancer: My Journey (39)
  • 01: The Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (6)

May 2014

  • 28: RIP Maya Angelou (2)
  • 19: Mansions In May: Blairsden House (10)
  • 06: Inspiring Breast Cancer Quotes (2)

April 2014

  • 26: Life Is A Great Big Canvas (4)
  • 25: How ‘The Alchemist’ Transformed My Life as a Marketing Executive (12)
  • 18: Eating To Fight Disease (19)
  • 16: Dense Breasts: The Secret You Need To Know (20)
  • 11: National Siblings Day (8)
  • 09: 8 Ways I’m Going to Balance Work and Family This Spring (17)
  • 04: The First Walk Of Spring (8)

March 2014

  • 28: The Things You Learn When You Go To A Sex Educators Conference (12)
  • 26: Survival Guide for Moms at Little League Baseball Games (14)
  • 23: Happy Spring! (0)
  • 20: Exercise Reduces Breast Cancer Risk For All Women (6)
  • 15: I Love New York! (14)
  • 13: I Used To Stalk Our Neighbors When My Kids Were Little (16)
  • 07: Thank You, Albert Einstein and Google! (23)
  • 03: The Obligatory Oscar Night Top 10 Recap! (18)

February 2014

  • 27: We’ll Always Have Paris (27)
  • 25: 10 Things I Wish I Knew When I Was In My 30’s (59)
  • 22: My Review Of ‘The Interestings’ by Meg Wolitzer (14)
  • 20: My Mom Wasn’t Into Letting Us Have A Pet, But Our Neighbors Were Another Story! (12)
  • 14: Sorry, But I Hate Valentine’s Day (19)
  • 12: Digging Deep To Find A Reason To Be Grateful This Winter (50)
  • 07: My Family Watched The Beatles First Appearance On The Ed Sullivan Show Together (59)
  • 03: Making the Effort To Walk To Church In A Blizzard and Then Getting Dissed By The Priest’s Sermon (18)

January 2014

  • 30: How I Shaved My Head When I Was Going Through Chemo For Breast Cancer (12)
  • 27: It Took A While For This Lifelong Klutz To Come To the Realization That Sports Are Good For Her Kids (17)
  • 22: The Best Advice I Ever Received (21)
  • 19: The 7 Things I Wish I Knew When I Was First Diagnosed With Breast Cancer (12)
  • 16: My Bingewatching Obsession with ‘Sons Of Anarchy’ (8)
  • 13: Stepping Out Into The Unknown (5)
  • 10: My 15 Favorite Books Of All Time (13)
  • 08: A Review Of Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch (4)
  • 03: Curse You, Winter Storm Hercules! (4)

December 2013

  • 31: The Pet Saga: Fancy Rats Part 2 (7)
  • 27: Christmas With New Pets (11)
  • 24: My Holiday Countdown Which Includes A Visit To The Oncologist (4)
  • 18: Happy Birthday To My 16 Year Old Son (9)
  • 18: Understanding Breast Density: Implications for Cancer Detection (0)
  • 13: My Top 10 Favorite Books of 2013 (15)
  • 11: The Big Box of Christmas Tree Memories (0)
  • 07: The Annual Christmas Tree Cutting Ritual (10)
  • 06: There’s No Place Like Home (2)

November 2013

  • 27: The 10 Things I’m Most Grateful For This Thanksgiving (6)
  • 25: Dr. Susan Love Speaks About Her Own Experience With Cancer: When A Doctor Becomes a Patient (0)
  • 22: Memories of JFK’s Assassination (10)
  • 21: An Inspirational Story of Breast Cancer From a 35 Year Old Woman In Portugal (0)
  • 16: My Mental Battle With An Elliptical Machine (6)
  • 14: How I Unveiled My Reconstructed Breasts For the First Time and Probably Scarred a Young Boy For Life (18)
  • 08: 4 Zings For The Circle By Dave Eggers (2)
  • 06: My Texas Adventure (0)

October 2013

  • 31: There’s No Cure Like Travel (1)
  • 30: How Eleanor Roosevelt Helped Me With My Latest OBGYN Visit (3)
  • 28: Harmony (And the Current Lack of It In My Life) (10)
  • 21: 5 Things To Be Grateful For This October (2)
  • 18: The 4 Books that I Found To Be The Most Helpful During Breast Cancer (5)
  • 17: Grateful for My “Scotty Dog” Monopoly Piece (4)
  • 15: The 2nd Thing You Can Do to Help End Breast Cancer this October (0)
  • 10: A List Of The 15 Most Important Things I Learned from Breast Cancer (25)
  • 07: What You Can Do To Make a Difference During Breast Cancer Awareness Month (4)
  • 01: Life 3 Years After Breast Cancer (4)

September 2013

  • 29: My Dad’s Printers Loupe (2)
  • 27: I Always Said I Wanted An Independent Daughter, Just Not Independent From Me! (6)

November 2012

  • 03: Hurricane Sandy (4)

September 2012

  • 07: Baby Rabbits in the Front Yard (4)

July 2012

  • 13: My Mastectomy Decision (7)

May 2012

  • 19: My Daughter and The Relay For Life (5)

April 2012

  • 01: Is My Cancer Different? – New Website (5)

March 2012

  • 24: The Komen Controversy (6)
  • 23: New Swedish Study Released on Dense Breasts (4)
  • 15: Post Breast Cancer Morning Rituals (12)
  • 12: My Favorite Version of Hallelujah (1)
  • 09: Putting Life in Context (17)
  • 08: Little Victories (6)
  • 08: Another Thought Provoking TED Video: Brene Brown – The Power of Vulnerability (0)
  • 02: Sh*t Girls Say to Girls with Breast Cancer (2)

February 2012

  • 26: My Father….Life Is What Happens to You While You’re Busy Making Other Plans (8)

January 2012

  • 13: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (3)

December 2011

  • 24: Christmas 2011 in the City (6)
  • 22: Getting Into the Season (4)
  • 01: Donating My Wig: A Symbolic Step After Beating Cancer (5)

November 2011

  • 02: Aruba, Here We Come (1)

October 2011

  • 29: Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow (1)
  • 15: Lucky To Live in Hunterdon County (5)
  • 15: Dense Breasts – What You Should Know (1)
  • 06: RIP Steve Jobs (1)

September 2011

  • 19: The New York City High Line (2)
  • 18: My Son’s Latest Craze: Planking (0)
  • 16: My 10 Coping Tools to Get Through My Breast Cancer Diagnosis (8)
  • 11: New York City After 9/11 (3)

August 2011

  • 21: Recovery Milestones: Physical Therapy, Hair Regrowth, and Reestablishing Relationships (9)

July 2011

  • 05: Happy 4th of July (1)

June 2011

  • 24: Cleaning For A Reason (1)
  • 24: Breast Density Law (4)
  • 19: Happy Father’s Day (3)
  • 14: Ending Breast Cancer: The Breast Cancer Deadline 2020 (3)
  • 03: The Visiting Ducks and The Pool (Yes, I Promise That This Relates to Breast Cancer) (4)

May 2011

  • 20: In Transition (5)
  • 14: Big Doings in Clinton (9)
  • 08: Mother’s Day 2011 (4)

April 2011

  • 26: Cancun Memories (3)
  • 16: Cancun Bound (5)
  • 15: How To Support Someone Who’s Been Diagnosed With Cancer (10)
  • 14: Ode to Tucker (7)
  • 08: A Trip Down Memory Lane to the Cancer Center (3)
  • 08: I’m In Love With My New iPhone (4)
  • 07: Soy and Breast Cancer (2)
  • 01: How to Survive a Breast MRI (55)

March 2011

  • 31: More About Dense Breasts (17)
  • 25: New Epigenetics Research (7)
  • 16: Chris’s New TrueHoops Video (1)
  • 12: My Hot Flash Solution: Remifemin (2)
  • 07: Part 2 On Reconstruction (6)
  • 05: 2 Weeks After Reconstructive Surgery (2)

February 2011

  • 24: New Study About Lymph Node Removal for Breast Cancer Treatment (8)
  • 14: It’s Over! Woo hoo! (8)
  • 04: I Thought My Mom Was Angry, But She Was Just Keeping Her Multiple Sclerosis Diagnosis a Secret (26)
  • 02: Memories of Snow Days Past…. (4)
  • 01: Losin’ the Wig (9)

January 2011

  • 27: Snow days (6)
  • 25: The Intangible Side Effects of Breast Cancer (8)
  • 23: Four Positive Side Effects from Chemotherapy (2)
  • 21: Surgery Date Is Set (3)
  • 11: My Son the Movie Director (6)
  • 07: Dense Breasts (6)
  • 05: Second Chances (4)

December 2010

  • 27: My Top 10 Books of 2010 (5)
  • 26: Post Christmas Bliss (1)
  • 22: In a Funk From Tamoxifen (5)
  • 03: The 7 Most Important Things to Remember About Your Breast Cancer (8)

November 2010

  • 29: My Breast Reconstruction Experience (3)
  • 26: Musings About the Mastectomy (3)
  • 25: A Day of Thanks, Post Mastectomy (1)
  • 13: I Got Breast Cancer And Then Decided To Put In A Pool (10)
  • 11: Preparing For My Bilateral Mastectomy (2)
  • 09: My Bilateral Mastectomy Surgery Is Next Week – Nov. 15th (4)
  • 04: Navigating Breast Cancer Diagnosis: My Personal Journey (4)
  • 03: Here We Go (24)

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Claudia Schmidt writes about life after her breast cancer experience in February 2010. Claudia’s work has been featured on WEGO Health, Midlife Boulevard. Follow her on Facebook or Pinterest.

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