Vulnerability

©Survivorship Media Network, LLC. All rights reserved. The only time I’ve ever seen my mom vulnerable was when she was going through her breast cancer…
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  • May 23, 2011·

Crossing Over

©Survivorship Media Network, LLC. All rights reserved. One thing a lot of people don’t know or realize about my mom is that she was a…
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  • May 15, 2011·

The Junior Jitters

©Survivorship Media Network, LLC. All rights reserved. It’s official, I am a junior in college. The first thing my mom said to me after my…
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  • May 9, 2011·

Easter Surprises

©Survivorship Media Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Six years and one week ago today my mom came home from the hospital after her surgery. We…
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  • May 1, 2011·

Harriet

©Survivorship Media Network, LLC. All rights reserved. When I first began writing my blog I wrote about Harriet- my Percheron horse and love of my…
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  • April 18, 2011·

Go Billies!

©Survivorship Media Network, LLC. All rights reserved. This week I have decided to brag just a little bit. My dad is in his first year…
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  • April 10, 2011·

Bowling and Breast Cancer

©Survivorship Media Network, LLC. All rights reserved. I went candle pin bowling this weekend and was trying to figure out different strategies to help myself…
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  • April 3, 2011·

Don’t Silence Your Voice

©Survivorship Media Network, LLC. All rights reserved. I went to a play this week about women in Juarez who are being brutally murdered and overlooked…
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  • March 27, 2011·

Find Your Happy Place

©Survivorship Media Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Off-season soccer practice officially started this week. Sixteen college girls in a stuffy gym from 6:00-7:30am, three times…
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  • March 20, 2011·

Being a Better Person

©Survivorship Media Network, LLC. All rights Reserved. With the arrival of the season of Lent, everyone seems to be buzzing around trying to figure out…
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  • March 13, 2011·

Be Ready

©Survivorship Media Network, LLC. All rights reserved. In one of my classes this past week, we interviewed one of the leaders in Boston theater for…
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  • March 6, 2011·

And the Winner Is…

©Survivorship Media Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Tonight is the night of the biggest award show in Hollywood- the Oscars! A few weeks ago, a…
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  • February 27, 2011·

Interconnectedness

©Survivorship Media Network, LLC. All rights reserved. This week at school, activist Angela Davis came to speak in honor of Black History month. She spoke…
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  • February 20, 2011·

Speed Dating and New Normals

©Survivorship Media Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Speed dating- one of the things I never imagined myself doing- and yet, this weekend, I found myself…
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  • February 13, 2011·

Facing Your Demons

©Survivorship Media Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Each and every one of us has something that we are terrified of. Be it snakes, spiders, public…
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  • January 30, 2011·

The Characters Among Us

©Survivorship Media Network, LLC. All rights reserved. One of my assignments for a fiction writing class was to talk to one person I didn’t know…
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  • January 23, 2011·

Chemo Brain

©Survivorship Media Network, LLC. All rights reserved. There is this lovely thing called “Chemo Brain” that my mom always likes to talk about. It is…
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  • January 16, 2011·

Choices

©Survivorship Media Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Robert Brault once said, “If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which…
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  • January 2, 2011·

Baby Jesus’ Birthday Cake

©Survivorship Media Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Every year for Christmas my family has a few traditions that we follow religiously: my sister and I…
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  • December 27, 2010·

Life Is Not a Check List

©Survivorship Media Network, LLP. All rights Reserved. On our last trip together, my roommate said something to me that I can’t seem to get out…
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  • December 12, 2010·

The Newest Sister

©Survivorship Media Network, LLC. All rights reserved. I recently found out that one of my “mentors” here at school, my writing professor, has some type…
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  • December 5, 2010·

Turkey Day

©Survivorship Media Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Two weekends ago I went to one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been, Venice. Never have…
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  • November 28, 2010·

The Sisterhood

© Survivorship Media Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Last week I visited Dachau, a concentration camp in Munich, Germany. It has always been on my…
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  • November 14, 2010·

Bringing up Taboo Subjects

©Survivorship Media Network, LLC All rights reserved. One of the things I love to discover is quotes. I am constantly looking for inspirational words of…
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  • October 17, 2010·

Learning From Ann Frank

©Survivorship Media Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Over the weekend, me and my fellow students went on a field trip to Amsterdam. We had the…
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  • October 3, 2010·
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