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My Texas Adventure

Statue in front of The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame “Thankfully, dreams can change.  If we’d all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses.” –Stephen Colbert The cowgirl above was from my favorite part of my weekend trip to Texas:  The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall […]

November 6, 2013 | By Claudia | Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: grass is always greener, National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, trip to Fort Worth Texas Leave a Comment

There’s No Cure Like Travel

“And there’s no cure like travel  To help you unravel The worries of living today. When the poor brain is cracking There’s nothing like packing A suitcase and sailing away.” –– Cole Porter I’m off for a weekend to see one of my best friends, in Fort Worth Texas!  Yahoo, when I googled the Fort […]

October 31, 2013 | By Claudia | Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: best friends, Fort Worth Texas, getting a second opinion on mastectomy, how to help someone after chemo 1 Comment

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 […]

October 30, 2013 | By Claudia | Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: life after breast cancer, side effects of tamoxifen, tamoxifen side effects 3 Comments

Harmony (And the Current Lack of It In My Life)

This quote speaks to me today.  I haven’t been in harmony for the past few weeks and have been working on sorting it out.  I think it’s got something to do with the fact that the kids are growing up and moving on.  This is what you have kids for; you raise them so that […]

October 28, 2013 | By Claudia | Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: raising independent kids, raising teenagers, trying to talk to teenagers 10 Comments

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 […]

October 21, 2013 | By Claudia | Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: grateful for october, moondance, van morrison 2 Comments

The 4 Books that I Found To Be The Most Helpful During Breast Cancer

I love to read and one of the side benefits of having breast cancer was that I had time where I couldn’t do anything but read for hours on end during chemo and it’s aftermath.  Here are my 4 favorite books that helped me during this time. Immediately below are the two books that helped […]

October 18, 2013 | By Claudia | Filed Under: breast cancer resources Tagged With: #bestbooksaboutbreastcancer, #breastcancer, #DrSusanLove, books about breast cancer, books about cancer, Carolyn Kaelin, Dr Susan Love, Henrietta Lacks, how to educate yourself about cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee 5 Comments

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Claudia Schmidt writes about life after her breast cancer experience in February 2010. Claudia’s work has been featured on WEGO Health, Midlife Boulevard. Follow her on Facebook or Pinterest.

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