Susan Conley
Excerpt from the memoir The Foremost Good Fortune
Four years ago my husband, Tony, and I moved to Beijing, China with our two young boys. It was a great life adventure—we planned to travel the Chinese countryside and ride trains and rickshaws and horses. And we did. But halfway through our time in China, I [...]

February 11, 2011–Make Some Lemonade–I know we all have goals and we think in the terms of “someday”.  Well LISTEN UP ladies and gentlemen stop thinking someday and start thinking right now!!!!!  Our brains are powerful tools and listen to our subconscious in a way I never truly understood, which is why I am just now [...]

February 9, 2011–Katy, Tx–Have you ever stopped to notice we tend to dance around death with catch phrases and buzz words? You know what I am talking about, our “Bucket List” or the way we throw around the words, “Kicked the bucket”.
For most of us death is something we fear, an unknown fate just waiting [...]

There are moments in my life when I seriously question where my childhood dreams went wrong. I mean was I the only little girl who wondered what it might be like to travel to distant lands and experience the world through untouched eyes?
What about all those long afternoons spent under the tree of Hopes and [...]

Driving with One Headlight
I sometimes wonder what life would have been like if I had not been diagnosed with breast cancer.  Would we have been as happy, as close as we are now? Sure I know cancer is nothing to jump up and down about, hoot and holler while shouting how wonderful it is to [...]

September 15, 2010–Katy, Tx–I awoke today with sadness, a heaviness lurking  just under the surface. This grief came suddenly yet not unexpectedly. I tried as I willed to push it back, as far away from my heart as possible not wanting to have to face cancer’s long cold stare but all the same cancer crawled [...]

September 8, 2010–Las Vegas, Nevada– Normally… we showcase authors on Fight Pink that are Breast Cancer survivors, or survivors of some sort of cancer.  Today, however, we are showcasing an author and a book that isn’t about Breast cancer, or any cancer in fact, but it is about Survivorship of sorts.
Today’s in the Authors Corner  is [...]

No Ordinary Princess
What has cancer taken from me? Well honestly this is a very loaded question. If we look at just the surface we can find many, many things…like for starters my breast?  I can tell you this one was not easy to let go of. Seriously I was not keen on this detour life [...]

Life at the Bottom of the Toy Box
If you have looked around lately you have noticed that Toy Story 3 mania is everywhere and I mean EVERYWHERE! From the cereal aisle to the toy section Toy Story is everywhere.  You can’t miss the signs if you wanted to. I wish the fight against breast cancer [...]

Charting a Course Across the Ocean
I have often wondered where life would have taken me if not for the” what if’s”.  You know what I am talking about… the “what if” syndrome. What if I had just taken a right turn instead of a left? What if I had waited a little longer to go [...]