Don’t Play Small

Don’t Play Small

You see, Ben is the kind of person whose energy makes a room brighter. Gregarious, warm, and full of humor, he has spent much of his life using his hands to build and create, whether through carpentry, playing harmonica, artwork made from reclaimed fencing, or even...
Promise to God

Promise to God

Our story: “It did come back malignant.” Time stopped. Life changed. At that moment, I became a statistic. 1 in 8. The 1 in 8 women that are diagnosed with Breast Cancer. Four days later, I became 1 in 3000. The 1 in 3000 of women diagnosed with breast cancer while...
Heart Full of Gratitude

Heart Full of Gratitude

In 2008, during a regular routine exam, my doctor of 20 years informed me she thought she had felt a tumor. She sent me to the gynecologist for a biopsy. The gynecologist decided not to do the biopsy because given my age and the location of the tumor, it’s almost...
Focus on Living

Focus on Living

“You’re going to need to see an oncologist.” Words I never thought I would hear. Cancer touches a lot of people. No one ever really thinks it will be them. No family history, in fact no one close to me had ever gone through cancer. I felt very much like, it happens,...
Marathons for Cancer

Marathons for Cancer

I was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia July 2011. And was told without a life saving stem cell transplant I wasn’t going to live the year. After nearly a year of in and out of the hospital including my cancer relapsing February of 2012; I had a life saving stem...