I think I’ve mentioned, I spent the first 11 years of my adult life working in TV news here in Seattle. In a Seattle TV newsroom, there is not a single 4-letter word more hated than the one they’ve been chatting up the last couple of days. SNOW My last day as an assignment editor […]

The best news I got Monday is that I don’t have a brain tumor. There was significantly more news, but that’s been a cloud looming over my head for longer than I’d care to admit. So I’ll back up a second- Monday I took the full day off work.  I started with an Echocardiogram and […]

I’ve been in a funk for a couple of weeks, and it occurred to me today that maybe I need to spew it out here. There are so many things I’ve had to say, but then I get tired of looking at a computer, and don’t. But the biggest thing I’ve got going on is […]

Not sure why it took me half of the month, but it occurred to me yesterday morning. All of these people all over the place are wearing pink to promote “breast cancer awareness” this month. For all of the days of this same month, our government has been shut down, meaning the National Institutes of Health […]

For as long as I can remember, my favorite color has been a shade of red. In first grade, it was officially light pink, then evolved to a deeper magenta, or the ruby red of my car, a handbag, water bottle, and often my nails.  From a purplish wine color, to salmon or coral, I love […]

I’ve always found the lead of a story (or a blog) one of the hardest things to write, likely because I know how important a good hook is. Right now I’m feeling more pressure than usual because I’m expecting a little spike in traffic. I’ve written a Breast Cancer Awareness Month blog for the public […]

So yeah, I said I would post after my surgery… but I didn’t say WHEN I would post, right? Still can’t think of a better word than surreal for having two doctors create nipple nubs on my faux-boobies while we chat about things like the fact that my plastic surgeon is wearing a white dress […]

I promise I’ll write more after the procedure tomorrow since I feel like I have more questions than info about tomorrow’s surgery where I get the bumpy part of my new nipples.  Tattoos will come later to get the color of the areola. Here’s a site where you can learn more about such procedures… they […]

It’s hard to believe it, but a year ago today I got the call from SCCA with the biopsy results confirming in my heart what I already knew. I had breast cancer. I told a friend yesterday, it’s much like being a mom, or the last 20+ years with my husband, in some ways it […]

So I’ve actually had a lot to say over the last couple of weeks, but I was working my rear off, getting ready for vacation, and then staying off of the computer out of respect for my boys while I was actually on the vacation. Our trip was wonderful. It was the first vacation I’d had since […]