My surgery is scheduled. The date is rather ironic – February 14th. Yes, while many of you will be celebrating Valentine’s Day with chocolates, flowers, and wine, Mike and I will be romantically celebrating with breast swap surgery. They’ll remove the hard plastic expanders and replace them with soft and hopefully comfortable, implants. It’s amazing […]
My Son the Movie Director
“Every child is born a genius.” — Albert Einstein I am the proud mother of a future movie director. My son Chris, has been making videos since he was 10 or 11. Neither Mike or I have any idea how to make movies, so this is all Chris, he just decided to figure it out […]
Dense Breasts
If you haven’t been exposed to the TED site, I would recommend you visit it. It’s fascinating. TED is an organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Now, there are 2 conferences a year and they post short videos […]
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” […]
My Top 10 Books of 2010
Because I’m such a reader, and because I was forced to just sit and relax so much this year, I read a lot of books. Here’s my list of the best of what I read this year (in no particular order): 1. Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese. All my favorite things rolled up in […]
Post Christmas Bliss
Today is the day after Christmas and I think it’s my favorite day of the year. All of the anticipation and anxiety associated with gift giving is over, and lo and behold, everyone seems happy with what they got. Everyone behaved yesterday and we all had a great, if haphazard dinner. I just couldn’t get […]