One of my favorite words is “beginning.” For me, no words are more powerful than “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”…

©Brenda Coffee. All rights reserved. The day after Christmas it will be two years since James died, and I’m still surprised he’s gone. There are…

We’ve all heard that laughter is the best medicine, so for those of you who are struggling with cancer or are simply in need of…

©Brenda Coffee. All rights reserved. Yesterday I attended a memorial service for a friend who died; a loving, well-respected man who gave of himself to…

©Brenda Coffee. All rights reserved.(I originally posted this in March, 2010, but I feel the need for a little humor, so I’m running it again.)…

©2012 L’Oreal USA, Inc. I’ve never considered myself a feminist, but the older I get, the more outspoken and interested I become in women and…

© Brenda Coffee. All rights reserved. I don’t think there’s anyone who doesn’t know this is breast cancer awareness month. In many ways, I’ve tried…

©Brenda Coffee. All rights reserved. This is my little man, Sam. If you look closely, you’ll see fur peeking out from between his toes, a…

Isn’t it funny, the things we remember after a crisis, like what we were wearing? At the end of my junior year in high school,…

©Brenda Coffee. All rights reserved. As a part of continuing my friend, Marie’s, challenge to photograph and write about the “ordinary,” let me say I’m…

©Brenda Coffee. All rights reserved. Can you see that? It’s rain, rolling in rivulets off my roof! Ordinary and yet, sometimes rare, rain! Granted, it…

©Brenda Coffee. All rights reserved. For most of my life my camera has been an appendage I’ve rarely been without, but since James died, it…

Last week, Elly Cohen, Ph.D. gave me an online tour of BreastCancerTrials.org. As Program Director for the site, as well as Asst Professor at the…

©The New York Times Who would have thought The New York Times would print one of my Twitter posts? I’m not an Ashton Kutcher or…

©DonnaPeach.com In recent weeks, many of us in the breast cancer blogosphere, including me, have written about what the term “survivor” means to us. I…

SYMPTOMS: • Zealous, fervent and fanatical when faced with consumer products displaying the pink breast cancer ribbon. • Irrationally extreme in opinion or practice; furious…

Recently the nurse from the dementia facility where mother lives called to say mother was complaining that her neck and shoulder hurt… a lot. To…

Fernando Botero This weekend my girlfriends and I saw The Very Best Marigold Hotel, a charming film full of characters with whom we can all…

©Brenda Coffee. All rights reserved. Last week’s blog about the will to survive Stage IV cancer resonated with many of you. The desire to see…

My lower back has been in excruciating pain since Thursday, and I can’t get in to see “Dr. Magic Hands” until Monday afternoon. I hesitate…

If you’re a regular reader then you know I embrace hypnosis, meditation and Guided Imagery as some of the most powerful weapons in our cancer-fighting…

©Ramborella, LLC. All rights reserved. Last week I shot the pilot for a national television talk show with me as the host, and I must…

©Ramobrella, LLC. All rights reserved. Who would have ever thought I might have my own national TV talk show? Stranger things have happened… I believe…

©Ramborella, LLC. All rights reserved. The other day I caught a glimpse of myself in a restaurant mirror. For a split second I thought the…

The other day my friend and I went to one of those no-frills shoe stores. You know the kind, those warehouse-looking buildings that sell every…

The other night I watched a rerun of Diane Sawyer’s interview with former US Congresswoman, Gabby Giffords, and her astronaut husband, Mark Kelley. The interview…

After testing positive for the hereditary BRCA2 breast cancer gene, Marion, one of my readers, recently made the brave decision to voluntarily remove both of…

©Brenda Coffee. All rights reserved. I know an extraordinary amount of things most people would find trivial, boring or shocking. For instance I can discuss,…