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April
Cental Coast, California
In March 2012, at 35, I was diagnosed with invasive ductal breast cancer, Estrogen-, Progestorone-, Her2+. With a 4-year-old daughter, this is my journey to cancer-free and parenting with cancer.
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This Blog Has Moved
Posted Mar 14, 2016 at I [Heart] My Life
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Let's Make a Baby
I'm not usually one for disclaimers, but this is a piece on a subject about which I've previously said very little publically. So, indulge me -- allow me to clear my throat and ease into this a bit: I wrote the following essay a week or so ago in my... Continue reading
Posted Apr 17, 2015 at I [Heart] My Life
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The Time My Daughter Caught Me Throwing Away Her Artwork
Posted Mar 17, 2015 at I [Heart] My Life
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Scars Make a Life: Happy Birthday to Me
Posted Mar 5, 2015 at I [Heart] My Life
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My Secret Time Travel Life
In these months following my dad, George's death, I've begun to write a book. It is a memoir, a self-reflection, on my journey from cancer to caregiver, from loosing my dad in my 20s to finding him again in my 30s, only to loose him again for good before 40.... Continue reading
Posted Feb 26, 2015 at I [Heart] My Life
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"The color of simplified happiness" -- Jen, I love that! I feel that, too. A yellow chick, a sunflower, the dusky, golden hour. I think my happiness with yellow will come back. But like you said, it is something deeper now... Thanks, A.
Yellow as September
Greetings! I've been a bit MIA from my blog recently. But trust I'm well, and I'm writing! Here is a piece I wrote yesterday on World Cancer Day... Yellow as September It started with yellow, Ended with yellow, And yellow lived at the core. Yellow, goldenrod, canary, No. 5. Yellow: the soft, tat...
Thanks, Beth. That means a lot coming from you since I know you are hurting now, too. My heart goes out to you.
Yellow as September
Greetings! I've been a bit MIA from my blog recently. But trust I'm well, and I'm writing! Here is a piece I wrote yesterday on World Cancer Day... Yellow as September It started with yellow, Ended with yellow, And yellow lived at the core. Yellow, goldenrod, canary, No. 5. Yellow: the soft, tat...
<3, thanks Whit.
Yellow as September
Greetings! I've been a bit MIA from my blog recently. But trust I'm well, and I'm writing! Here is a piece I wrote yesterday on World Cancer Day... Yellow as September It started with yellow, Ended with yellow, And yellow lived at the core. Yellow, goldenrod, canary, No. 5. Yellow: the soft, tat...
Torie, I wish all my friends could have known him. He was quite the guy. :)
Yellow as September
Greetings! I've been a bit MIA from my blog recently. But trust I'm well, and I'm writing! Here is a piece I wrote yesterday on World Cancer Day... Yellow as September It started with yellow, Ended with yellow, And yellow lived at the core. Yellow, goldenrod, canary, No. 5. Yellow: the soft, tat...
Thanks, Pam!
Yellow as September
Greetings! I've been a bit MIA from my blog recently. But trust I'm well, and I'm writing! Here is a piece I wrote yesterday on World Cancer Day... Yellow as September It started with yellow, Ended with yellow, And yellow lived at the core. Yellow, goldenrod, canary, No. 5. Yellow: the soft, tat...
Yellow as September
Posted Feb 5, 2015 at I [Heart] My Life
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A Eulogy For My Mother: 8 Years Later (Borderline Personality Disorder, Suicide)
Posted Nov 13, 2014 at I [Heart] My Life
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Sick Day: The Making of Memory
Posted Oct 27, 2014 at I [Heart] My Life
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The Time I Took My Mother & a Shotgun to My Father's Funeral
Posted Sep 24, 2014 at I [Heart] My Life
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A Daughter Pens Her Dad's Obituary: George Herbert Johnson, GHJ Tree Farm
Posted Sep 10, 2014 at I [Heart] My Life
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Dipping a Toe in the Hospice Chapter: Stage IV Pancreatic Cancer
Posted Sep 2, 2014 at I [Heart] My Life
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Mid-August Update on My Dad: 5 Months Since Diagnosis
Posted Aug 13, 2014 at I [Heart] My Life
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Thoughts on Suicide The Morning After
Posted Aug 12, 2014 at I [Heart] My Life
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"How's He Doing?": An Update on My Dad's Pancreatic Cancer Treatment
Posted Jul 17, 2014 at I [Heart] My Life
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Over the River and Through the Woods
Posted Jul 14, 2014 at I [Heart] My Life
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Before Dinner, a Tonic-Clonic
Last November, while out doing some errands before Thanksgiving, my dad suffered from an out-of-the-blue grand mal seizure (now called a tonic-clonic). He collapsed in an automotive store, was taken by ambulance to the hospital, and then was unconscious for a week in the neuro ICU. Eventually he was diagnosed... Continue reading
Posted Jun 14, 2014 at I [Heart] My Life
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Making Sense of the Nonsensical
Posted May 29, 2014 at I [Heart] My Life
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Magic Mineral Broth Recipe
Posted May 28, 2014 at Green Tea & Chocolate: The Cancer Slayer Chronicles
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Bit By The Green Smoothie Bug
Posted May 27, 2014 at I [Heart] My Life
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Bit By The Green Smoothie Bug
Posted May 27, 2014 at Green Tea & Chocolate: The Cancer Slayer Chronicles
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