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

How I Finally Learned How To Meditate With An App Called ‘Calm’

It’s Time For My Bi-Annual Oncologist Appointment

I Feel Torn Every Time My Kids Come Home, Then Go Back To School

HealtheVoices 2016 Conference

Beyond the Pink Moon Support Group

The Pet Saga: Fancy Rats Part 2

The Fancy Rat saga continues. This stuff is just too good not to write down. Yesterday I was driving back home and turning onto our street when I saw my daughter driving the other way. We both stopped at the corner and rolled down our car windows and before I said a word, she greeted […]

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow

“The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.” — E.E. Cummings My 93 year old mother-in-law attributes the crazy weather we’ve been having lately to the NASA space program. “Ever since they sent those astronauts up there, things have been crazy around here, weather wise.” Her theory is that they did something […]

An Open Letter To Myself About Breast Cancer

In February, it will be a full 6 years since my diagnosis and subsequent treatment for breast cancer and I no longer feel a burning need to write about that time of my life. The fact that I’m 6 years out has somewhat released me. I don’t feel as strong a connection to breast cancer anymore […]

Bitches Get Stuff Done – BAMC15

A couple of weekends ago I went to Nashville, Tennessee for the Bloggers at Midlife Conference, a conference for a group of wonderful women bloggers. I was excited about the chance to meet many of the women whose blogs I’ve been reading over the past year and hoping to learn some new information about blogging that I wasn’t aware […]

Dense Breasts: The Secret You Need To Know

When I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010 I was told by the mammography radiologist that I had dense breasts. This was the first time I had ever heard this and I’d been getting mammograms for 10 years. © Tyler Olson – Fotolia.com In fact, I had never heard of dense breasts before and […]