While Flying – Frustration surrounds Me

For starters I was on a flight for a happy family event. The day started great. I got a lot of work done on our official Advocates for Breast Cancer website. I got to the airport at the right time even though LAX was so crowded because there’s a problem with the TSA and there’s […]

Outlaw Human Gene Patents – Why this Supreme Court Case is so Important to Us

Monday, April 15, while most people are thinking of their deadline to have their taxes in, the Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments in a landmark case where Myriad Genetics, a corporate diagnostic testing company, is being challenged on their attempt to have a patent on the “breast cancer genes” BRCA1 and BRCA2. One […]

Donna Peach – Danced in to the Light

Last night , Donna Peach danced in to the light. It is her beautifully poetic expression for those that have died. Yesterday was Donna’s time. Every night I check my email and look for Donna Peach’s blog. She had stage IV metastatic breast cancer and I met her through her blog when I started blogging […]

Valerie Harper Inspires

I am so touched by Valerie Harper. As I am sure my readers are aware , not only is Valerie an incredibly accomplished actress, but her warmth and grace has been so touching during this terrible diagnosis of leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, a rare condition that happens when cancer cells invade into the fluid-filled membrane that surrounds […]

Celebrating the Extra-Ordinary: Her name is Shelby

In the blog, “Journeying beyond Breast Cancer” Marie challenged other bloggers to celebrate the ordinary by taking a photo of something every day that makes them feel grateful.  When my friend Li Bailey died on January 6, 2012 of Metastatic Breast Cancer (see earlier blog My Fearless Friend Li Bailey) , she left me with […]

Notes from Dr. Susan Love Speaking at the Summit

I really enjoyed hearing Dr. Susan Love speak at the Inaugural Advocate Leadership Summit. For starters it was such a thrill and so exciting to see her after knowing that she went through intense treatment including chemotherapy and surgery for leukemia. I always feel so uplifted when she talks about breast cancer and opens our […]

Hope from the NBCC Deadline 2020 Advocate Summit and Lobby Day

As I returned home from the NBCC (National Breast Cancer Coalition) Advocates Summit and Lobby Day to end Breast Cancer Deadline 2020, I was really happy I went. I have to admit I had so many reservations going. I labored over my decision. I thought I was going to fly home with “Frustration – Part […]

Read all About It – Our Feel Good War on Breast Cancer

I scooped the article, Our Feel Good War on Breast Cancer in my “Breast Cancer Advocacy” news articles at the end of last week and it also came out in the New York Times weekend edition. There was a wonderful response to this article by Katherine O’Brien, who is the MBCN (Metastatic Breast Cancer Network) Secretary […]

My Life will Never Be Normal

I was reading Marie ‘s Weekly Round Up on her blog “Journeying Beyond Breast Cancer” as she quoted  Eileen’s blog,  where she writes, “If there’s anything I’ve learned in my process that will help another, I owe it to myself and others to share it on my blog.” There was an article written about me […]

Time Magazine – How to Cure Cancer

The article below is from Time magazine talking about what is involved in curing cancer. I think that the article raises hope for seeing a cure, but we still have a long way to go. As I am preparing to go to Washington DC with the National Breast Cancer Coalition on May 4 – May […]

Survival – A Widow’s Journal

In Survival, A Widow’s Journal, Muriel Kagan Zager describes her experiences following the loss of her husband, Victor, after 56 years of marriage. Her reactions to her new status and the unexpected reactions of others to her situation provide an insight into what new realities she faced.  She discovered that some people she thought would […]