Last week, I talked about how Justice Ginsberg inspires all of us to live a life of service to others, to look at the greater good and how we can each contribute. Her life demonstrates how one person can do so much to affect the trajectory of culture and I find that to be incredibly … Continue reading RBG, Part II
Author: Abigail Johnston
I'm a daughter, a wife, a mother, and I've been living with Stage IV Metastatic Breast Cancer since March, 2017. All of the words I publish are my own.
Weekly Round-Up
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
RBG, Part I
Last Friday, the 18th of September, the world lost a force of nature. Ruth Bader Ginsberg (a/k/a RBG) was murdered (and I mean that literally) by metastatic pancreatic cancer, after a long and illustrious career, after dealing with cancer multiple times and working through it, after leaving her indelible mark on the world. She left … Continue reading RBG, Part I
Service
Most of the time, when I look up a definition to start a blog post, there's one or two entries and examples. Not for service, there are pages of definitions! For today, I'm paring down the definitions to the ones that are specific to what I want to talk about in this blog post. Service … Continue reading Service
Freedom from makeup
I'm probably a what would be termed a "late bloomer" when it comes to the traditional "girly" stuff. I frankly never much cared for experimenting with hair and makeup and clothing was something much more functional than decorative to me. I managed to live most of my growing up years with this perspective and was … Continue reading Freedom from makeup
Womanhood, motherhood, whateverhood
I read a statement recently by a breast cancer survivor about redefining womanhood. She’d decided to go flat after her mastectomy and she’d had a complete hysterectomy that removed all of her lady parts from the cervix to her womb. Her point, and I’m paraphrasing, was that those biological parts of her did not define … Continue reading Womanhood, motherhood, whateverhood
Reblog: Open letter from a person with chronic pain
I don’t talk a lot about the side effucks and issues that I carry every day. It’s not that I don’t think about it, all day, every day. As I type this, I’m sitting in the waiting room at a local imaging center ready to get my quarterly PET scan to see if my medication … Continue reading Reblog: Open letter from a person with chronic pain
Soul
The other night, my very precocious 6 year old rolled over and said ... "Mommy, where is Great Grandma?" My grandmother died over the summer in 2018 and we've talked a little about death since then. So, I reminded him that we'd talked about Great Grandma being in heaven. We talked a little about who … Continue reading Soul
Cancerversaries/Metaversaries
A pretty good definition of this rather elusive concept. I’ve been living with Stage IV Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC) for three (3) years and I confess to an awkward relationship with anniversaries now. Some dates of my treatment and the aftermath are seared into my memory and will never be forgotten. Others, I wish I … Continue reading Cancerversaries/Metaversaries
A Step Forward
One thing I learned while practicing law is that it is just as important to celebrate wins as it is to identify issues. So, I want to take a moment to describe what I would consider a win. A little backstory first ... I hate to wait, like really hate to wait. Part of the … Continue reading A Step Forward
No Half Measures 