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How Angelina Jolie Pitt’s Decision Can Help Us Become Stronger Healthcare Advocates For Ourselves

By now, you’ve heard about and read the March 24th New York Times article, “Diary of a Surgery” by Angelina Jolie. In it, Jolie shares her decision to have a laparoscopic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy because of her risk factors for both breast and ovarian cancer after having tested positive for carrying the BRCA1 gene mutation. As I woke up that morning […]

The Visiting Ducks and The Pool (Yes, I Promise That This Relates to Breast Cancer)

“Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.” — Michael Caine This week we had some visitors to our pool. Two ducks, a male and female, were swimming around in there last night. I was so pleased, I felt honored – they looked so sweet and somehow graceful (for […]

Soy and Breast Cancer

Boy have I been busy. I’m trying to find that happy balance where I have time to do what I like (like writing this blog) and keeping my clients happy. Lately the clients have been winning out. But, we’re Cancun bound for Spring break with the kids, so there’s a light at the end of […]

How To Get A Teenager To Clean Their Room (Or Not)

Ah, to be a 16 year old boy. My son dislikes cleaning his room, and in fact seems to prefer to live amidst a state of constant chaos. When I was young, I was really messy and my mother, who lived by the rule that “Cleanliness is next to godliness” used to do crazy, periodic […]

My Mental Battle With An Elliptical Machine

“Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.” — Plato Big win. I started exercising again. I haven’t exercised since January of 2010. OK, I walk the dog a lot, but given his meandering around and the fact that he stops […]

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