I was a 38 year old mother of 2, married, ate right, exercised, no cancer history, breast fed my kids, when on a Sunday morning in the shower doing my routine self breast exam I felt a lump.  

5  years and a double mastectomy, dose dense chemotherapy, radiation and one-thous… Read full post »

Did you watch NBC's Farrah's Story?  It replayed last night to honor Farrah, who died this week of cancer--which of course you already know.

I didn't watch it this week, but I did when it aired originally last month. On the one hand, I wanted to see it because&… Read full post »

The last time I went on a blind date I was 16 years old and stuck at a dinner table with a sweet young boy who scared me to death. Not that he was mean, or scary looking, or at all disagreeable--actually he was really nice. But he was a boy,… Read full post »

Warning: this is a rant.

I recently logged on to my internet and saw a headline that sparked my interest: The Truth About Balancing Children and Career.

Cool, I thought, maybe some wisdom from other real moms who've been there and figured something out I haven’t ? (That list is endless)

And what… Read full post »

This is the kind of thing that makes me crazy:  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28046810.  It is an article on how ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer now has his own column in a magazine.

I am so sick of people in power, people in public places, doing things that mere mortals get blasted for, like lying and… Read full post »

I have been blonde all my life.

I have endured the jokes and the taunts readily, since they were always leveled by that old saying,
"Blondes Have More Fun". Of course, I have no idea if blondes really
do have more fun, but who cares. When it comes to having… Read full post »

As a new Open-Salon-blogger, I wanted to get in on my first "open call", the Thanksgiving Memory version.

I wanted to spill the beans on my holidays past--the food, the fights, the frantic way a family of 6 grew into an extended group of 20 plus, all who love to hate,… Read full post »

Ever since Janet Jackson flashed the world during her "wardrobe malfunction" at the Superbowl Halftime show a few years ago, I have been wary of all televised sports.

I can't keep my kids in a bubble during football/baseball/basketball seasons, though, because sports is a big part of my husband's lif… Read full post »

I have found myself  verbally spanked by more than a few friends these days for my cautious, if not pessimistic, reaction to the recent election.

Let me just get one thing straight:  I am happy.  I really am.

We have a new president-elect, a black president-elect, a… Read full post »