After taking these photos while I was at a retreat in Union, I checked facebook and saw that a friend on holiday 35 miles away took the same picture at the same time. :) Trillium are perennials, and picking the flower can damage the plant so much that it takes a few years to recover. [...]
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I'm running away for the weekend; leaving Seattle in my wake. Let's just pretend that I don't have 30 pounds of text books packed in my suitcase. I'm headed off for a weekend of girl talk, yoga, beach combing and chick flicks with my 'cancer girls,' as my husband calls them. He always uses the [...]
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Why is it that food purchased from the side of a truck always seems to taste better? We have some amazing food trucks in Seattle. Seattle is making a name for itself with it's foodie culture, but many may not know about the amazing food being served up on wheels around the area. There are, [...]
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I like to think of myself as having superpowers. My favorite superpower is the ability to make things go away by not believing they are true. I’ve had a lot of practice using this superpower; I was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer while I was still breastfeeding my baby.
I have a lot of practice using this superpower, but not much success.
One of the first things that hits you over the head with a cancer diagnosis, after confronting your mortality, is the understanding that you are not in control. Control is an illusion. That is a very difficult concept around which to wrap your brain.
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My grandparents moved to Alaska in the late 1940s. At that time, the state was very much still a rugged frontier, and everyone had an interesting story to tell. Grandma took notes, and shared them with me, asking me to publish them so the rest of the family could have easy access to these stories. [...]
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This is my first Ultimate Blog Party with 5 Minutes for Mom, and I'm excited about it. I'd love to meet more bloggers. I love the interaction and sense of community that comes with blogging. I'm a breast cancer survivor. I was diagnosed a year ago, just before my baby's first birthday. A little over [...]
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