Blog Category: Cancer

Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2025

October 1 2025
Before I was diagnosed, October meant two things: pumpkins and candy. (Maybe a few orange and red leaves, but mostly candy.) Now I think of it as the Pink Month, […]
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“Now I’ll Tell You a Secret Thing”

November 22 2019
At 7a.m. on November 23, 2012, my life stopped. I was 37. My life had changed before this in big and small ways; mostly good, some spectacular (having two healthy […]
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The Plum Trees (Yet Another Lesson in Letting Go)

September 6 2019
Let me start by saying that I love trees. There is nothing that would make me cut down a tree. However. We had three plum trees along our side fence. […]
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Life Lesson on Aisle 5

March 27 2019
Have you ever spent $30 on greeting cards? Last week I was in my local Safeway, picking up the three things my son will eat. I was distracted, I was […]
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New Year, New Updates

February 28 2019
As the new year unfolds I wanted to post the highlights from 2018 and what’s happening in 2019. And in the spirit of Marie Kondo-ing, it is all in one […]
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Lyft and American Cancer Society Giving Free Rides to Cancer Patients

September 12 2018
Lyft is offering free rides to cancer patients in major U.S. cities as part of their ongoing relationship with the American Cancer Society (ACS). Read all the details here.  
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Upside Down & Inside Out

May 11 2017
Spring arrived this year in fits and starts. Just when I’m ready to slap on the sunscreen and put away my winter sweaters, the rain comes back. This uncertainty, this […]
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New Beginnings

January 20 2017
As I watched the inauguration this morning I found myself looking back, to where I was four years ago. And I realized that on this day in 2013 I was […]
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Shades of Pink

June 24 2016
Despite the ongoing debate about “pinkwashing”–the misuse of the breast cancer pink ribbon–I seem to be surrounded by it. On my flight from San Francisco to North Carolina, I chatted […]
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Morning Inspiration & Everyday Joy

May 23 2016
Mornings are chaos around here – getting the kids fed, dressed, watered; lunches packed; breakfast made and eaten; homework folders found under the bed or in the backpacks. Then coffee, […]
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