Before I was diagnosed with breast cancer, I put together a team each year to raise funds and walk in fundraisers for breast cancer. Our team was called "The Legal Eagles for Healthy Hooters." We thought ourselves quite clever. The walks were extremely meaningful to me in light of the fact that my mother and … Continue reading STOP The Sexualization of Breast Cancer
Category: Advocacy
RBG, Part II
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
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
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
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
Boundaries
I've been thinking a lot about boundaries lately in conjunction with some reading and musing recently about my personality. As a life-long learner, I'm always excited to learn more about what makes me tick and helps me understand others. I'm familiar with the Myers-Briggs personality testing (If anyone is interested, I'm solidly an ISTJ) and … Continue reading Boundaries
Hope
Hope is a subject that is often discussed in support groups of all kinds and especially for those of us who are living with a terminal illness. I find it sometimes difficult to balance hope with reality since I am immersed in the research going on and in mentoring several newly diagnosed cancer patients. In … Continue reading Hope
Podcasting — LIVE tonight!!
Until relatively recently, I had no idea what a podcast was. Literally. When people talked about hosting or speaking on a podcast, I probably had quite the quizzical look on my fact. I don’t remember when I finally figured it out. It probably had something to do with my dear Emily Garnett’s podcast, The Intersection … Continue reading Podcasting — LIVE tonight!!
MBC Parent USA
A few months ago, I got a call from Danielle Thurston. We are connected in several groups and both write for AdvancedBreastCancer.net, but we didn't know each other all that well then. What she shared with me created such excitement that I stalked her a little, watching for it to unfold. In essence, Danielle has … Continue reading MBC Parent USA
No Half Measures 