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An Open Letter To Myself About Breast Cancer

My Son’s Latest Craze: Planking

“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” — Elizabeth Stone Have you heard of the youtube phenomenon called planking? It’s my 13 year old son’s latest obsession. Apparently they run around the school and do group plankings, like […]

A Breast Cancer Rant

Be forewarned: This is a breast cancer rant. I don’t usually give in to the level of fear and obsession I’ve been feeling lately, but I want to get it out and onto paper so that I can move on. I think about cancer every day. I worry that I’ll have a recurrence every day. […]

It’s Time For My Bi-Annual Oncologist Appointment

It’s that time of year again. Time for my 6 month oncologist appointment update. The hospital kindly sends me this oddly innocuous and rather bland looking reminder postcard shown above, twice a year, and I leave it laying around on the kitchen counter for a few weeks ignoring it and pretending it’s not there until the […]

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 […]

I Love New York!

It’s been a busy week for me, with lots of work projects and two visits into the City (New York City, for those readers who aren’t on the East coast). Tip for any out of town readers who plan to come for a visit, if you don’t want to seem like a tourist you say […]

An Open Letter To Myself About Breast Cancer

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