One of the breast cancer blogs I have followed for years is Nancy’s Point. Nancy Stordhal, the author of this blog, is very well known in the breast cancer world and posts frequently about her experience with breast cancer, her mother’s experience with breast cancer and how she deals with the grief over the loss […]
The Pets Are Now the Kids, and Other Musings Of An Empty Nester
This is the vision that greets me first thing each morning as I check in on Tucker, our Pembroke Welsh corgi, before I let him outside. His stubby little corgi legs stick straight up in the air when he sleeps in his crate every night and he certainly seems pretty cozy in there. We call it […]
Attending The National Breast Cancer Coalition Summit in DC
Last weekend I attended the National Breast Cancer Coalition (NBCC) conference in Washington, DC, where I joined with other breast cancer advocates to learn about the amazing work this organization is doing to end breast cancer. When I was diagnosed in 2010, I immediately started googling “cure for breast cancer.” The first link that came […]
How Having Expectations Has Shaped My Existence
One of the things I’ve learned from breast cancer is to stop spending so much time focusing on expectations and what could be, versus what actually is. Before I had breast cancer, expectations caused me more pain and drama than almost anything in my life. I had expectations about everything my whole life. Expectations about how […]
How To Raise Kids In A Tech-Obsessed World
Raising kids in our tech-obsessed world can be challenging. In particular, providing advice via text is an interesting lesson in brevity. I like to talk. I’m verbose. I take a long time to explain things because I like to give lots of examples and provide context along with (what I consider to be) humor and […]
The Barnes Foundation
It’s a lot of fun to have two discretionary days a week to focus on doing things that feed my soul. With that as my mantra, I have been busily filling my Monday’s and Friday’s with trips that I’ve wanted to make for years. One of my recent days was a visit to The Barnes […]