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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 & Family

Friends

Have you ever watched little kids make friends? It blows me away with it’s simplicity and straightforwardness. I’m learning from this kind of authenticity.

Community

A new day, with a new set of challenges, including the challenge of wrapping my head around yet another wave of violence. But that fresh start is also an opportunity for a fresh perspective, for evolving the way I look at the situation, and the world.

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.

Creating a Living

2012 – A year in review

A look back at the year that was. I introduced my little girl to one of my favorite pieces of public art in Seattle. I dove into the Winter/Spring semester as a full time student. I went to New Orleans to attend the Conference for…

Cancer

Taking back October

My friends are dying, and it’s not for lack of awareness. We don’t need more awareness. What we need is a cure.

Cancer

Eight years

Dear Universe: The sickness and poorer part of our vows were not an invitation. I’ll have you know that despite pneumonia, cancer, myasethenia gravis, a combined 18 nights in the hospital, more than 10 dashes to the ER, 8 years of at least one and…

Cancer

Harmony Hill

I’ve spent the past two days working on a couple projects that have had me knee deep in photographs from the Young Survival Coalition. That’s had me a little emotional, to say the least: memories, faces, friends… One of those projects a presentation on our…

Cancer

On the radio

.This is the story of how I became an on air radio personality. Ok, it’s not. I’m not. It’s not even about me. This is a story about Debbie Cantwell, and the non-profit organization she started on her kitchen table, all by herself, to help…

Family

Rainy day in Seattle

I never imagined I’d be the kind of Mom who let my little girl play in a mud puddle in the middle of a Seattle street. Yet here we are… Don’t underestimate the value of mud puddles.