CATCHING UP

A funny thing happens when you give out your blog’s URL. You visit it and realize it hasn’t been updated in almost a year. OOPS! Truthfully, though, its just because I’ve been living life and feeling so grateful for what feels like a second chance […]

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ANXIOUS BUSY

When I was first diagnosed and dipped my toes into breast cancer support groups, I found myself very perplexed by the attitudes of many women who had completed treatment and were in remission. They seemed to be just an anxious about things as I was […]

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IT’S JUST HAIR

It’s been over four months since I finished chemo. It’s been a week and a half since I finished radiation. Life is quickly starting to feel a little bit closer to normal. Diagnosis feels like an entire lifetime ago. So does getting word I had […]

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WELLBEING

New year, new me has a totally different feel to it for me this year. It’s not something that happens at the stroke of midnight on January 1. It’s something that will happen over the course of the next… however long. Since I’ve been in […]

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PLOT TWIST

Much like my initial Facebook post, I don’t know how to even start this. But just like that post, I’ll just say it. I have breast cancer. It’s gotten oddly easier to say over the last week since I got the news, while sitting at […]

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TRUCK GIRL

I think I’ve written in the past about how I’m a truck girl. A pickup woman. Whatever. I’ve just driven trucks since I learned to drive. (Except for a short stint in high school when I drove a Ford Taurus.) At this point, its what […]

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OUR WAITING PLACE

I just got back from visiting family in Texas. I spent the weekend celebrating my Dad’s birthday and then meeting an important IRS deadline. (We won’t talk about that. It was a sh*tshow for so many. We got lucky and were able to hit the […]

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INTENTIONAL

Last year I chose a word of the year for the first time. Apparently it was CREATE. I chose that word and then promptly forgot… only reminded of it when it came up on my Timehop a few days ago. And let me tell you… […]

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RECOVERY DAY

When doing a workout schedule, it’s recommended that one takes a recovery day to allow muscles to repair themselves. It’s an important step in everyone’s exercise routine. Arm day. Leg day. Ab day. Every part of your body gets a day. But why is it […]

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LISTENING TO LEARN

I haven’t posted a blog post since April. Three months not writing is pretty unheard of from me, but as much as I wanted to write time and time again I just couldn’t do it. Or in the few cases that I did sit down […]

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