Claudia – Page 2

Love the La La Land Soundtrack

Life Lessons From Tucker

When I Was A Teenager, Bob Dylan Was My Role Model

My Personal Relationship With the Month of October

Making Good Choices

Cancer Was Not a Gift & It Didn’t Make Me a Better Person: Book Review

My 15 Favorite Books Of All Time

Both of my parents were English majors in college. Our childhood home was filled with shelves and shelves of books, most of them the classics and works of great literature. I read War & Peace when I was only 12 years old and when I mentioned it to my mother, she accused me of just […]

I Used To Stalk Our Neighbors When My Kids Were Little

There’s a couple that live in the house behind ours who are about our age and never had kids. Because of how the houses are situated and separated by fences, we don’t really share a neighborhood with them and we only see them from afar with the occasional wave and hello, but have never really […]

Aruba, Here We Come

“Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson I’m kind of embarrassed to say that we’re going on yet another vacation again this Saturday. This time we’re going to Aruba. It’s just been a plethora of vacations this year and given the snow we had last weekend, I’m so glad we’re […]

New Epigenetics Research

“She’s the most important person in the world and her family living in poverty. If our mother is so important to science, why can’t we get health insurance?”— Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Since my diagnosis and treatment(s), I’ve become obsessed with reading about breast cancer as well as cancer, in general. […]

The Great French Adventure: Trip to the Local Gendarmerie

After my experience with the Parisian pickpocket community, I began to take notice of the local police or “gendarmes” as those of us in the know call them. Let me just say that they are quite a handsome bunch. They have these snappy dark blue uniforms with epaulettes and stripes, which are tailored and fitted. […]