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Why October Gets Me Thinking About Recurrence

Determining Whether Or Not To Get A Port For Chemotherapy

Where I’ll Be Donating My Money This October for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

I Feel Torn Every Time My Kids Come Home, Then Go Back To School

HealtheVoices 2016 Conference

Mom, Can You Make Me Some Shrimp?

Putting Life in Context

This morning, I was cleaning up before the cleaning lady comes (you women will know what I’m talking about) and as I looked up at the wall, I noticed this electrical outlet. For a few minutes I gazed at it, wondering why it was discolored and greyish at the bottom, until I realized it was […]

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 […]

I Used To Stalk Our Neighbors When My Kids Were Little

There’s a couple that live in the house behind ours who are about our age and never had kids. Because of how the houses are situated and separated by fences, we don’t really share a neighborhood with them and we only see them from afar with the occasional wave and hello, but have never really […]

What You Can Do To Make a Difference During Breast Cancer Awareness Month

“The key to ending breast cancer is to learn how to stop it before it starts.” — Dr. Susan Love This month of pink ribbons can drive a breast cancer survivor nuts, but as a marketer I know that this is the month people are thinking about breast cancer, so in the spirit of riding the horse […]

Who Else Remembers Tony Home Perms?

As a child, it seemed that my mother was constantly ironing. Every night, we’d watch TV in the rec room and she’d stand behind us at the ironing board with a pile of washed, dampened and starched shirts rolled up in a ball and stored with several other small round balls, all packed into one big […]