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Digging Deep To Find A Reason To Be Grateful This Winter

Making Good Choices

It’s full on empty nest time in our home and I’m in a quandary as I work on figuring out what to do with all the extra time. Before ENT (empty nest time), each day used to start with a cleaning sweep around their upstairs bedrooms and bathroom as I cleared out all the water […]

Why October Gets Me Thinking About Recurrence

October is a tricky month for me, post breast cancer diagnosis. Before I had breast cancer, I had a very different opinion of breast cancer awareness month. I was one of those women who was very focused on awareness and not focusing on research, as I was under the impression that if you found breast […]

In Transition

“Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Lately, I’ve been in a bit of a conundrum about what to write on here. Because I started this blog to chronicle my experience with breast cancer. And these days, I actually forget, for hours at a time, that I had breast […]

10 Things I Wish I Knew When I Was In My 30’s

Lately I’ve been thinking about how wise I’ve become. If you haven’t snort laughed yet, you should. I would never have referred to myself as the wise type. But, now that I’m in my 50’s (God, how old that sounds), I am a whole lot wiser than I was in my 30’s and 40’s. Here’s […]

Memories Of My Grandmother’s Cooking

As we’d enter the hallway of her apartment building, the smells of Grandma Schmidt’s crispy fried potatoes and roasted chicken would float down the stairwell so strongly that we’d all begin to salivate within moments of walking in the door. We’d talk about it on the way up the stairs, murmuring among ourselves about how […]

Digging Deep To Find A Reason To Be Grateful This Winter

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