It was 9:30 pm and I was driving home from a lovely dinner with my friend Denise when I got the dreaded call. There was no caller ID and I was driving, so I am not even sure why I answered the phone. It was Dr. Chen, the surgeon that performed the removal of a benign papilloma in my right breast the previous week. My heart sank as soon…
(Updated 3.26.20) When I decided to make this blog my next career move, I vowed to myself that I wasn’t going to let its focus be breast cancer. Why? I don’t want breast cancer to define me. I need to be more than a survivor wearing a pink ribbon! Cancer, in general, is a downer, and I am a very upbeat person. I am…
Today is the anniversary of my father’s passing. It has me feeling reflective of my childhood and my relationship with my Dad. It was not exactly all a bed of roses. I am the youngest of four children. We grew up in Flushing, NY in an attached brick two-family dwelling. My Grandmother and my Aunt Jo lived in the upstairs five room “house,” and we…
I don’t know what it is about rainy days but they always make me want to create something. Today was the perfect day! I had posted a few weeks ago that I had scored a terrific buy at Hobby Lobby on two wooden candlesticks. They were originally priced at $27.99 a piece. I found them on the clearance rack marked $2.99 each. Woo-hoo! Our current…
We purchased our home this past winter so we had no idea what type of flowers the previous owners had planted or what our landscaping was going to look like come Spring. We decided it would make more sense to wait and see what we had before we did our own landscaping. We were pleased with the different types and sizes of bushes in various shades sitting pretty in the…
It will be August in 48-hours. That means the dog-days of summer are upon us. Wow, that went fast, don’t you think? I don’t know about you but it seems like we just figured out the right mix of chemicals for our pool and then it started raining and we needed to add more chemicals. But, that’s a blog for another day…