Most people don’t like a one-upper. We’ve all met them – someone who always, regardless of the topic, has to have the final say. Perhaps she had the worst illness, or he had attended the best college, or she had the worst boyfriend, or he had the absolute bestest...
My radiation was put on hold for two days. Two days further behind schedule because my radiation marks had shifted and warped. Rather than a thin, straight line so my doctor could pinpoint my treatment down to the millimeter, I had a pudgy, drunken curve covered in...
Along the Jersey Shore lies the modest, charming town of Ocean Grove. Its small-town feel and Victorian architecture seem a direct contrast to the stereotypical notion of a Jersey beach town. And yet this town, with its humble beginnings as a Methodist campsite in...
Knitting is one of those activities that can easily shift from the general category of “hobby” to something deeper, a coping mechanism, without your ever becoming aware of the change. Somewhere it transitions from knitting for fun to knitting for healing. For...
I have friends who have traveled to countless countries, camping their way through Africa or in the jungles of India. They’ve navigated the terrain on their own without a guide or knowledge of the language. And each time they’ve returned home in one piece and with an...
Tell any woman she’ll have to have chemotherapy and one of her first thoughts will be about chemo hair loss. We live in a society where a lot of feminine identity is based on our hair. Is it long enough? Straight enough? Curly enough? Too gray? Too wild? You don’t...
Can we just be honest for a minute? How many of you actually wore deodorant after your first couple weeks of radiation? Because for serious y’all, wearing deodorant on sore armpits is hard! When I first started radiation treatment I wore deodorant, like any...
I'm Beth, and I'm so honored you're here! I'm a Triple Negative Breast Cancer Survivor out to show that life and adventure don't end after the trauma of a cancer diagnosis. You can read more about my story here.
