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 [...]

“There is a place. Like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger! Some say to survive it: You need to be as mad as a hatter.”~ The Mad Hatter
How very true this statement is in the everyday real life of the cancer survivor!
Life can be so amazing. Every possibility is [...]

I have started many times to sit down and write this entry. I have needed to write but as each day has come and gone, I have failed to get the task done. The problem has been my heart has not been in it. Even my heart has needed to write longing to purge my [...]

Have you ever wondered where soldiers go when they retreat? When they need to step away from the battlefield and care for their wounded? When they must crawl out from their fox holes and away from the blazing fire falling down upon their heads?
Sometimes it’s not even by choice these brave few must pull up [...]

Dear Boobie Fairy,
Now I hear it’s that time of year again, some call it BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH. A time of year when folk all over the world focus on defeating this beast we call Breast Cancer. She’s a real menace you see. Scratching and clawing her way from one boobie to the next. She [...]

Cleaning Out the Cobb Webs
August 29, 2009–Katy, Tx.–How often do we get caught up in the running of our day to day lives? We run here, there trying to the best of our abilities to be everywhere. We take care of the kids, our husbands ( and wives) and anyone else we feel needs us [...]

Island of Misfits

Katy, Tx.–August 4, 2009–Most definitely there are times when living in the aftermath of breast cancer feels a lot like living on an Island of misfits. You really do understand there is just something a little off, a bit different about you now. Still you want to believe if just for a moment, [...]

July 24, 2009–Katy, Tx.–Yesterday as I wandered the aisles and through the shelves of our library I was reminded of a very powerful conversation I had with my son Joshua a while back. He was all of about 10 years old when he sat down next to me announcing he had come to an interesting [...]