The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) annual conference is in my back yard this year at the the Orange County Convention Center. It started last week, has continued over the weekend and will conclude Wednesday morning. The website for this meeting is extremely robust and you can view all of that here. While I'm … Continue reading AACR Conference 2023
T for this week’s round-up of the best of the blog posts which I’ve read over the past week. These are the posts that have moved me, taught me … Weekly Round-Up
I hope that some of you have had the opportunity to listen to the OurMBCLife podcast episode that dropped last week with the same title as this post. If not, you can access the episode I had the pleasure of producing here. I'm so thankful to the amazing team at OurMBCLife who allowed me to … Continue reading Advocacy; Finding Purpose in Adversity
T for this week’s round-up of the best of the blog posts which I’ve read over the past week. These are the posts that have moved me, taught me … Weekly Round-Up
There was a discussion recently in one of the online support groups where I spend lots of time these days about family planning after discovery of a germline mutation (a/k/a hereditary predisposition for cancer) that got me thinking. As many of you are aware, I discovered in 2017 that I carry the ATM germline/genetic mutation, … Continue reading Family planning
T for this week’s round-up of the best of the blog posts which I’ve read over the past week. These are the posts that have moved me, taught me … Weekly Round-Up
If you haven't already read the first part of this topic, Language, Part I, you should go read that first. It gives the context for this post and some necessary background. In that first post, I talked about the first of two scenarios where the language utilized in responses to a vulnerable post was (or … Continue reading Language, Part II
T for this week’s round-up of the best of the blog posts which I’ve read over the past week. These are the posts that have moved me, taught me …Weekly Round-Up
As so many of you know, I love to read. I read a book or so each day and having the time and ability to escape into the other worlds afforded by my imagination and the written word is truly one of my most cherished coping skills. No matter what is going on, those worlds, … Continue reading ReBlog: 6 Novels That Get Chronic Illness Right
Parker Palmer wrote “Let your Life Speak; Listening for the Voice of Vocation” and so much resonated so strongly with me. When your life’s work and career is disrupted by a serious illness, it’s difficult to find purpose to keep going. Sure, family is important and I’d do anything for my husband and kiddos; at … Continue reading Book Review: “Let your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”
No Half Measures 