Travel

The Last Leg Of the Great French Adventure: Normandy

The Great French Adventure: Last Day in Paris

The Great French Adventure: Trip to the Local Gendarmerie

The Great French Adventure: Part 3

The Great French Adventure: Part 2

The Great French Adventure: Part 1

How I Found A Breast Cancer Surgeon

I love my OBGYN. He was the brave soul who called me about 15 minutes after I left the mammography center to tell me what the radiologist thought. He said, “I don’t know how much they told you, and I’m sorry if I’m being too blunt, but what you do from here on out will […]

Second Chances

“I figure life’s a gift and I don’t intend on wasting it. You don’t know what hand you’re gonna’ get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you. To make each day count.” — Jack Dawson, Titanic Does anyone else my age think that the song “I wanna be a Billionaire” […]

Life Lessons From Tucker

We have a Pembroke Welsh Corgi named Tucker. He’s the source of my deep, enduring love and constant exasperation. Over the holidays, he was petted and doted on by the stream of guests coming and going, with so much attention being rained down on him that he would lay exhausted at night on his bed, […]

Post Breast Cancer Morning Rituals

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” —Buddha Here’s my morning breakfast. I am nothing if not a creature of habit. I’m a big tea drinker and much prefer tea to coffee especially in the morning. So much more gentle and nurturing for […]

5 Things To Be Grateful For This October

“Well, it’s a marvelous night for a moondance With the stars up above in your eyes A fantabulous night to make romance ‘Neath the cover of October skies And all the leaves on the trees are falling To the sound of the breezes that blow And I’m trying to please to the calling Of your […]