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

It’s Time For My Bi-Annual Oncologist Appointment

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

Time To Throw Away the College Guides

Taught How To Fly

Did I Do A Good Job Parenting My Kids?

What To Give to Someone Who’s Diagnosed With Cancer

I never used to know what to do when someone got sick. I’d be afraid to bring it up to them, afraid to ask them about it, afraid to offer help. Worried that I’d intrude or say the wrong thing. When I was diagnosed, I was so afraid to talk about it at first, but […]

Mansions In May: Blairsden House

This Friday I went with friends to “Mansions in May” at Blairsden House in Peapack Gladstone, New Jersey. This huge mansion is tucked away in the hills, far from view, not even visible from the nearby town. Blairsden is a 62,000 square foot Beaux-Arts home (yikes, can you believe one family lived in a place […]

A Trip Down Memory Lane to the Cancer Center

“To do what nobody else will do, a way that nobody else can do, in spite of all we go through; is to be a nurse.” — Rawsi Williams Today I had my 2nd routine check up with my oncologist at the hospital. It was my first trip to the cancer center since I’ve finished all of my […]

How Eleanor Roosevelt Helped Me With My Latest OBGYN Visit

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.” –Eleanor Roosevelt Crappin’ monkeys. Once you have breast cancer, every doctor visit becomes way escalated. In the days pre-breast cancer, my typical OBGYN visit […]

Did I Do A Good Job Parenting My Kids?

My son made me this card in school for Mother’s Day 2010 and it hangs on the wall of my office. I remember the day I got it framed, mid-way through chemo. I cried that day at the framers, so overwhelmed by emotions. I was bald, I was weak, I was scared. But I was so happy […]