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A Breast Cancer Super Hero

An Inspirational Story of Breast Cancer From a 35 Year Old Woman In Portugal

“My message for all the women that may be affected by breast cancer: Live your normal life, do everything (of course with some limitations) but don’t give up!” –– Carla Amorim Today’s post is a guest post from Carla Amorim, a 35 year old breast cancer survivor from Portugal. I’ve never met Carla face to […]

Losin’ the Wig

Last week I decided to stop wearing my wig, and start going out with my “real” hair. After chemo, my hair came in completely silver, in addition to being so curly that it looks kind of like a very short Afro. So I decided to dye it myself on that snow day last week; after […]

My Father….Life Is What Happens to You While You’re Busy Making Other Plans

“He opened the jar of pickles when no one else could. He was the only one in the house who wasn’t afraid to go into the basement by himself. It was understood when it rained, he got the car and brought it around to the door. When anyone was sick, he went out to get […]

Making the Effort To Walk To Church In A Blizzard and Then Getting Dissed By The Priest’s Sermon

This was a post I originally wrote on February 2, 2011 which I thought I’d revisit and dust off. Very deja vu and apropos. All of this snow has me thinking about when we were kids, because it sure seemed like we had a lot of snow days back then. In particular, I remember one […]

The Last Leg Of the Great French Adventure: Normandy

It’s about time I write my last post about the France trip. I’ve been a bit remiss because I’ve been traveling for work quite a bit in the past few months but I’d like to get this up on the site so I can remember the details. After 5 days in Paris, Gloria Steinem left us to […]

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