We’re taking an early break from June’s focus on parenting to hear from Jenny Cutler Lopez, whose book, American Scar Stories, was released just yesterday. I asked Jenny to share with us how she got started writing about scars, and where the journey has taken her so far. American Scar Stories March 2013. I stand […]
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How Scars Become Beautiful
One doesn’t get to adulthood without acquiring a few scars, of both the emotional and physical kind. You could be emotionally scarred from a difficult childhood, from being bullied, rejected, dumped or passed over. You could be physically scarred by broken bones, surgeries, regretted tattoos, or self-mutilation. Everyone carries the scars of aging, which include wrinkles, gray hairs […]
April Book Round-Up
Rather than post weekly book reviews in April, I decided to do a round-up at the end of the month. If you’ve been keeping track on my “Books I’m Reading” page, you’ll see I’ve been interested in variety: a healthy mix of fiction of both the literary and genre type, and an array of nonfiction topics. […]
Niche Blogging: The Big Rule I’ve Been Breaking Since 2012
Since August 2012, I’ve been breaking a big blogging rule. That was when I stopped writing only about books and reading, and decided to open up the blog to new ideas and themes. Since then, I’ve written on a variety of topics: parenting, gratitude, cancer, style, time management, self improvement… the number of categories listed […]
A Change Of Perspective: Cancer Speaks To Me
The other night, I was chatting with my mother-in-law in my kitchen while Edwin spooned pureed vegetables into his mouth (or tried to, anyway). I was telling her how much I’d enjoyed interviewing Marie, Laura and Lauren for their cancer stories. One of the questions I’d asked all three of them was how they’d changed […]
Lauren’s Story: “My Tumor Went Away”
Today’s cancer story belongs to Lauren, who has cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, which falls under the umbrella of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. “It’s one of the few cancers that you can never say you’re cancer free. So I’ll never technically be a survivor,” Lauren told me in our interview. In cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, Lauren explains, the T-cells within the […]