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Living with Dying: Thoughts on friendship and cancer

I get by with a little help from my friends

Advocacy

Vera Beautified Me for Get Hitched Give Hope

I was getting ready for Get Hitched Give Hope, an amazing, annual charity event that pairs wedding planners and vendors with happy couples planning their nuptials, and the proceeds benefit two organizations that support people living with cancer: the Young Survival Coalition and the Dream Foundation. It was my biggest formal event of the season, and the driving Seattle rain had just gone horizontal.

Advocacy

YSC, the Tour de Pink, and #GivingTuesday

A couple months ago, after a Tour de Pink training ride, my friend and fellow cancer survivor, Karen Lawson, posted a selfie on Facebook, and wrote, “Love these legs and the 57 HILLY miles they just carried me up.” I was surprised when my eyes…

Advocacy

The Big C and Me: My Cancer Story

My cancer story: a collection of my blog posts and articles about my battle with breast cancer.

Parenting with Cancer

Cancerversary

Thoughts on cancer, death, and getting busy living on the 4th anniversary of my cancer diagnosis.

Advocacy

Team Sakura and the Tour de Pink

And so they ride. Team Sakura rides to get back at cancer, they ride to support each other, and they ride because they can.

Advocacy

Remembering Candice

We talked about how difficult it is to describe Candice, and have people really understand just how awesome she was, or how deeply her absence is felt, about the urge to insist, “But you don’t understand! This was CANDICE!” Of course people didn’t understand, unless they’d met her. You only had to meet her once to really get it.

Cancer & Mental Health

A circle of women

A circle of young women supporting each other through breast cancer.

Gather Your Network

for Michele

Michele had a way of telling her story so that it didn’t terrify the newly diagnosed girls. She would spin the story each time, so it came out with a message, a little moral or lesson to tie up the anecdote like the “you see, Timmy” at the end of each episode of Lassie.

Parenting & Family

Angel

This was from a party last Christmas, but still among my favorite pictures of the Little Angel. Here’s wishing you a peaceful and happy holiday season.