What ‘National Cancer Survivor’s Day’ Means To Me As A Survivor And A Mom
A year ago I had never even heard of National Cancer Survivor’s Day, a celebration of life held around the world. This year, however, it’s an incredibly important day for me. What a difference a year...
View ArticleMe and Angelina: Why I Stand By My Decision to Have Preventative Cancer Surgery
What do I have in common with Angelina Jolie (besides oversized lips that are apparent even in our baby photos)? We’re both moms. We both discovered through DNA testing that we carry the BRCA1 genetic...
View ArticleListen To Your Mother
So this is happening. In an effort to step out of my comfort zone, at the suggestion of a friend, I auditioned to be part of the first ever Nashville cast of Listen To Your Mother, a collaborative...
View ArticleRight On Time
I wrote recently about having auditioned to participate in Nashville’s first production of Listen To Your Mother, a live staged reading of essays written by real people about motherhood. The event took...
View ArticleAvoiding Negative Self-Talk: Why the Phrase ‘F*ck Cancer’ Is No Longer in My...
You know that icky feeling you get in your stomach when you’re fighting with someone … when the conflict hangs over your head like a dark cloud, robbing you of feeling joy at any given point in your...
View ArticleH-T-W.
Some of you may of you be familiar with the game K-F-M (http://killfuckmarry.tumblr.com), where one is given three hypothetical options and has to pick who among them they’d, respectively, kill, f*ck,...
View ArticleAlive and kicking.
I haven’t posted any status updates since leaving the hospital a week ago, mostly because I’ve spent the week surrounded by my wonderful family, in my own home, and it has been extraordinary. But I...
View ArticleBuilding a Legacy (While Enjoying Every Sandwich)
In the fall of 2002, the great Warren Zevon made his final appearance on The David Letterman Show before dying of malignant mesothelioma, a rare and deadly form of lung cancer. When asked by Letterman...
View ArticleThe Elephant In The Room | The Danger of Trying to Control Perceptions
I was doing some holiday shopping with a close friend this past December, and ended up picking up an item I thought would look nice in our home … a sort of stuffed patchwork elephant comprised of...
View ArticleFour Fifty Three am. July 28th, 2015
One year ago today, at 4:53am, Joanna Lee Stanfield Montgomery drew her last breath. It feels like it happened yesterday and a million years ago, simultaneously. I miss her more than I can articulate…...
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