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Keeping the Plates in the Air

Posted on October 17, 2009
One of the things that happens when you fail the bar exam is that you go back over every single excruciating detail of the test and the test preparation in your head to try to figure out "what went wrong."...

Grief and Loss

Posted on October 16, 2009
It has been about two weeks since I received my dismal bar results and it has taken much of that time for me to work through my feelings associated with the failure. It has been a blow to my ego...

Frisk the 15th!

Posted on October 15, 2009
Today is the day! Please make sure you do your self-exam today!...

Bounce

Posted on October 04, 2009
So far there has been little about my law school experience that has been anything like the way most people do it. Most people don't start law school at thirty-nine years old with three children and a husband at home....

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Frisk the 15th!

Posted on September 15, 2009
When was the last time YOU did a breast self-exam? Do it today!...

Frisk the 15th!

Posted on August 15, 2009
It's almost time for school to start...add a breast self-exam to your list of things to do to get ready!...

And...That's A Wrap

Posted on August 04, 2009
Okay, okay?I hear you Gentle Readers. Thank you to those of you who have been sending me little nudges, wondering if and when I might pick up my pen (or keyboard) again. I am amazed that you are still reading,...

Frisk the 15th!

Posted on July 15, 2009
It's the 15th of July...how are your breasts doing? Check them and find out!...

This Blog Has Been Temporarily Interrupted By Bar Review

Posted on May 25, 2009
Found at my new favorite website, Courtoons.net....

Technical Difficulties

Posted on May 17, 2009
You may have noticed that there have been some technical glitches around here lately. Thanks to my favorite blog master, things seem to be working again. In celebration, I'll be posting a long overdue update very soon....

Frisk the 15th!

Posted on May 15, 2009
Spring is here...spring into action by doing your monthly breast self-exam!...

Frisk the 15th!

Posted on April 15, 2009
Please take the time to check those breasts!...

Frisk the 15th

Posted on March 15, 2009
It's that time...have you done your monthly breast self-exam?...

Obsession (or The Hair Chronicles, Part 562)

Posted on March 12, 2009
I am obsessed with hair. I have spent more time in the last year and a half thinking, talking, worrying, and writing about hair than I ever thought that I would. I?m sure that this is just another one of...

Frisk the 15th!

Posted on February 15, 2009
There's no better way to beat the winter chills than by doing your monthly self-exam! Today is the day!...

I Think This Makes It More Than Fifteen

Posted on January 18, 2009
I have volunteered to be a Breast Cancer 3-Day Ambassador again this year and last week the event publicist I have been working with asked me if I wanted to appear on NBC5?s Sunday news show as a spokesperson. I...

Frisk the 15th!

Posted on January 15, 2009
Today is January 15th! It's not too late to resolve to do a monthly breast self-exam...just make sure you start today!...

A Few More Minutes

Posted on January 06, 2009
And in the New York Times, no less. I had no idea this was in there today. Does anyone reading this have a print copy? If so, will you look and tell me if it was in there?...

Give Me A Head With Hair

Posted on December 18, 2008
The winding drive leading to my oncologist?s office is about a quarter of a mile long and is lined with stately old oak trees. In the summer, it is cool and green and shady under the oaks. In the winter,...

Frisk the 15th!

Posted on December 15, 2008
It's the 15th of December already! Take a break from your holiday preparations to do your monthly self-exam!...

Blogger Meet and Greet

Posted on November 29, 2008
I?ve been up to my eyeballs in law school alligators this semester, so I am way behind on my story telling. But I am taking the day off from homework today, so I decided to use the time wisely by...

Frisk the 15th!

Posted on November 15, 2008
Yep, it's that time again! Check those breasts!...

Rock the Vote!

Posted on November 04, 2008
Today's the day. You know what to do....

An Ode to Running

Posted on November 03, 2008
I never thought I would create anything called An Ode to Running. Until this year, I never imagined that I would run anywhere, let alone that I would like it. The last time I ran was in high school, during...

This Time Last Year

Posted on October 17, 2008
On October 17th of last year, I was getting myself mentally psyched up for my seventh (and second to last) chemotherapy treatment. I was in the middle of the blog scholarship contest, and you were all lifting me up with...

Gettin' Frisky With It!

Posted on October 15, 2008
It's October 15th...time to do your monthly breast self-exam!...

Book Review: Belly of the Whale

Posted on October 09, 2008
Books by and about cancer patients and survivors abound, and I have read my fair share in the last year and a half. Most of these types of books that I have read have been biographies or autobiographies. And that...

Frisk the 15th!

Posted on September 15, 2008
Today's the day...make sure you do your monthly breast self-exam!...

10 Months Later...

Posted on September 09, 2008
And just so you can see the dramatic difference, here is a recent picture of me ten months later...with hair!...

Speaking of Pictures...

Posted on September 09, 2008
During the course of the blogging scholarship contest last fall I received hundreds of e-mails from all over the world. Many people wrote to offer their support, but many wrote to share their breast cancer and other cancer stories and...

Book Cutting

Posted on September 08, 2008
One of the posts on my original blog was about how I cut my law school case books to make them smaller and more portable. I got the idea from another law student's blog long before I started school, and...

NBC One Day, ABC the Next

Posted on August 26, 2008
Blog For Scholarship Money or Tutor Online...

Through The Looking Glass

Posted on August 18, 2008
Apparently each member of my immediate family is walking around with a big ?V? tattooed on our foreheads these days. That?s ?V? for victim. Karly?s car was hit with paintballs two nights in a row last week and Randy woke...

2008 Chicago Breast Cancer 3Day

Posted on August 17, 2008
Last weekend was the Breast Cancer 3Day and it was an amazing experience. It was everything that people had told me it would be?and more. I have been reluctant to sit down and write about it because I don?t think...

Frisk the 15th!

Posted on August 15, 2008
Time flies when you're having fun! It's the 15th...you know what to do!...

These Boobs Are Made For Walking

Posted on August 06, 2008
We?ve spent months training and preparing, covering miles and miles. We?ve grown from a pair of old friends planning to walk together, to a team of 12 amazing women. We?ve raised over $40,000. And it?s finally time to walk. The...

Milking Our Fifteen Minutes For All They Are Worth

Posted on August 05, 2008
Saturday was media blitz day for The Chest Nuts. Not only did we appear on the local NBC morning news, but there was an article about us in the local paper, too. Rachel, Diane, Karen, and Lesli and I met...

Fifteen Minutes

Posted on July 24, 2008
CR Magazine Loyola Law School Alumni Magazine Northwest Herald Spartanburg-Herald NBC5 Interview ABC News article...

Feeling Frisky?

Posted on July 15, 2008
Good, because it's the 15th of July. Do your monthly self-exam!...

Jenny

Posted on July 07, 2008
Here is a picture of my beautiful cousin, Jenny, and her daughters Maggey and Abbey. Thank you so much to those of you who have visited her site and left comments for her! I know that she really appreciates the...

Drink the Wine. Wear the Clothes. Use the China.

Posted on July 02, 2008
I find that all the exercise endorphins and the effects of a healthy diet and my joy at living are easily tempered by the sobering news that I have received in the past few weeks. One day a month or...

Update

Posted on June 30, 2008
Despite appearances, I have not abandoned this blog. After Randy asked me if I had decided to stop writing, though, I thought maybe I should post an update. In the last few weeks I?ve finished up the spring semester, taken...

Walking the Walk

Posted on May 15, 2008
As you can imagine, I?m all about reminding women to do a monthly self-exam these days. Every time I tell my story to someone new, I always end with an entreaty to be vigilant about doing self-exams. I confess, however,...

Anniversay

Posted on May 14, 2008
Today marks my first anniversary, although it?s not one that I ever planned on celebrating. Today I have been cancer-free for one year....

Happy Mother's Day!

Posted on May 11, 2008
More on our wet, cold, rainy Y-Me Mother's Day run later. For now, I want to share the best piece of original poetry ever. Composed by Matthew for me. Your Life Your gonna be a lawyer mom Your gonna be...

The Home Stretch

Posted on May 07, 2008
Another semester is over and I am busy preparing for finals now. It feels much different than the end of last semester. When I was reviewing my notes in preparation for finals last semester, I didn?t even remember covering certain...

What's On Your Playlist? (Part 2)

Posted on May 07, 2008
I got such great reactions when I posted a list of my workout songs a couple of months ago that I thought I would post a continuation of the list today. You guys gave me some great suggestions for additions...

Flashbacks

Posted on April 20, 2008
I have written before about how frequently I still think and talk about breast cancer. I am still dealing with several residual physical effects of chemotherapy, including, among others, menopause, weird nail issues, and nerve damage in my left arm...

368 Days

Posted on April 13, 2008
That?s about how long it has been since I first discovered a lump in my breast. As I wrote recently, just a few days after I found the lump I had breakfast with my kids, my parents, and my brother...

Hair Update

Posted on April 13, 2008
This is for those of you who have been curious about my hair. This was taken on Friday night at dinner with my friends Rachel and Gayle. I am about 5 1/2 months post-chemo. Yes, it's curly! No, there is...

After

Posted on March 27, 2008
I have been writing more about my walking/race training and school recently than I have about breast cancer. To read this blog, you might think breast cancer is a distant memory for me now. It is far from that, however,...

What's On Your Playlist?

Posted on March 25, 2008
My 3-Day and 5K training is going well and I continue to feel stronger every day. I still don?t know if I?m actually going to be able to run the whole 5K, but I?m going to try. I have been...

Sanibel Pictures

Posted on March 23, 2008
These are a couple of shots of our recent trip to Sanibel with friends. You can?t see it in these pictures, but as the week progressed my hair turned from straight to curly. At first I thought it was just...

Home Alone

Posted on March 21, 2008
It feels a little like that first scene in Home Alone around here?the one where everyone in the family and in the neighborhood is rushing around trying to get out of town for the holiday break. Today marks the beginning...

No Backing Out Now

Posted on March 17, 2008
It's official! I registered Karly, Blake, Matthew and myself for a local 5K today. Now I'm committed. Here's hoping I make it! ************************************************************* Thank you for registering for the Run thru the Hills 5K/10K, 2008...

One More Small Step

Posted on March 11, 2008
I have sent out a few resumes in the past couple of months hoping that I would be able to find a position somewhere for this summer. You may recall that I have felt some trepidation about the interview process...

The Weather Is Beautiful, Wish You Were Here

Posted on March 04, 2008
Greetings from warm and sunny Florida! Randy and I are on Sanibel Island (near Fort Myers) for a few days with our friends Brett and Rachel and Skip and Gayle. (Gayle and Rachel will be members of The Chest Nuts...

Running Away

Posted on February 18, 2008
Back in October I purchased a one-year family membership at a local gym. This isn?t the first time we have been members of a gym, but the last time was a bit of a disaster since no one (read: Randy or I) ever actually took advantage of the membership and went...

The 3 Month Mile Marker

Posted on February 17, 2008
Last week I had a three-month post-treatment check up with my oncologist. I can?t believe it?s been three months since my last treatment. Sometimes it feels like it was just a couple of weeks ago, but most of the time it feels like it was a long, long time ago...

The Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk

Posted on February 11, 2008
For several years now I have seen the advertisements and heard the news recaps about the Breast Cancer 3 Day walk. It crossed my mind that I would like to participate somehow, but I never took it any farther than that. This year, however, I have a new and compelling reason to do something...

Civic Duty is Calling!

Posted on February 05, 2008
If you live in one of the 22 states holding primaries today, don't forget to vote. You can locate your polling place or get other ballot information by using this website set up by the League of Women Voters. You can also find information about your state's primary on the site if it is not being held today...

And The Winner Is...

Posted on February 04, 2008
The Chest Nuts! That name won with 44.6% of the votes, so The Chest Nuts it is. Thank you so much for your help in choosing! The Final Counts The Chest Nuts 44.6% 29 Simply the Breast 29.2% 19 Freshly Squeezed 26.2% 17

60 Miles in 3 Days

Posted on January 28, 2008
One of my college roommates, Courtney, sent me several e-mails last year over the course of my chemo treatments. In one of them she planted a seed that has since taken root and begun to grow. She asked if I was interested in walking in the Breast Cancer 3-Day this year...

86 Days

Posted on January 26, 2008
I snapped a couple of new hair regrowth progress pictures this morning and then decided that today was a good day to share the post-chemo images that you have been asking about. I previously took pictures 1 day post-chemo and then again 51 days post-chemo...

Changing Focus

Posted on January 24, 2008
As you may have noticed, the frequency of my posting has dropped off in the past couple of months. Part of that is due to the craziness of the holidays followed by a week of intensive school, but part of it is because I am at a point in my cancer journey where changes don?t happen every day...

More About Hair

Posted on January 17, 2008
My trial practice intensive last week was, as the name implies, intense. The days flew by, but a lot of the time it felt like I was out of town. I didn?t spend much time at home and the time I was there was spent studying and getting ready for the next day...

To Be Continued....

Posted on January 04, 2008
Just a warning that things will probably be quiet here for the next week or so. Spring semester starts tomorrow with a week-long trial practice intensive. I'll be in class every day from tomorrow through next Saturday from 9:00-5:00. Add my daily 5 hours of commuting to that and you get little time for posting...

Book Review: The Middle Place

Posted on January 03, 2008
A couple of weeks ago I received a review copy of another book, The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan. (The first link will take you to the book on Amazon.com, the second link to Corrigan?s website and a gorgeous picture of her and one of her daughters.) The book will be published in just a couple of days on January 8, 2008, and this is one that you might want to pre-order...

Hair Today, More Hair Tomorrow

Posted on January 02, 2008
I am reveling in my return to normalcy these days, and thankfully I have lots of things to revel in lately. I enjoyed every taste of wine and champagne and beer and cookies and lasagna and ham and candy and potatoes and garlic and all the other lovely holiday treats that crossed my palate throughout the past couple of weeks...

Happy New Year!

Posted on January 01, 2008
My plan is to spend some time cozying up with my computer today in order to get caught up with some posts that have been bouncing around in my head for the past couple of weeks. These holiday weeks have been a whirlwind of family and friends, visits and parties and lots and lots of cooking and eating, and have forced me to leave any writing by the wayside...

Book Review: Dangerous Admissions

Posted on December 21, 2007
Another publisher recently contacted me to ask whether I was interested in receiving a review copy of yet another new book. Never one to pass up a free book, I said yes. I don?t know exactly how they keep finding me, but I love this added benefit of blogging...

Catching Up

Posted on December 18, 2007
I know, I know?I?ve been MIA. I?ve been a bit preoccupied with finals and shopping and fighting spam bots, but I think I?ve gotten through the worst of it all. Well, I don?t know about the spam bots, but they?re at least under control even if they?re not yet completely vanquished...

Technical Difficulties

Posted on December 07, 2007
I think the whole blog has been hijacked by the spam bots now. I can't seem to get any comments to work. If you've tried to leave a comment and you received a message that said the comment was being held for approval, I didn't get it. I'm only getting spam comments right now...

The Long and Short of It

Posted on December 05, 2007
With kudos to Anne-Marie for finding it, here is a picture of weekly post-chemo hair regrowth as documented by Karin Stack. I started to do something similar with my own regrowth, but as you can see from the 4th picture there's not much for the camera to catch yet...

Next Steps

Posted on November 29, 2007
This was my last week of classes this semester. Up next...finals. On one hand this semester feels like it has been the fastest one yet. On the other hand it feels like it has lasted for a year. I have begun reviewing some of my notes in order to start my outlines, and I am beginning to realize how much I must have had going on in my head during the last few months...

You Say Tomato, I Say To-mah-to

Posted on November 25, 2007
I have been out and about more in recent weeks and as a result I have been running into people I know. I have been surprised by the number of people who, upon seeing that I look like I feel good, ask if I am ?in remission.? And maybe that is an obvious thing to ask someone who has had cancer and is now better...

Happy Thanksgiving

Posted on November 22, 2007
I have so much to be thankful for this year. I am lucky, you know. I am here and cancer free and well on my way to good health. I have incredible people in my life and days full of love and happiness and a table full of good food in a warm house...