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I’m Mad And I Want You To Know Why

by Robin | Oct 30, 2017 | Advice, Cancer is NOT okay!, Family, Health, Mothers and daughters, Personal, Uncategorized

Long ago and far away, or so it seems now, we lived in South Carolina. A few years after we landed there, a young couple moved to town, life-friends of my younger brother-in-law. We welcomed them with open arms; friends of family are friends of ours. They were...

Beauty is the light in the heart

by Robin | Jan 31, 2013 | Breast Cancer, Cancer is NOT okay!, Inspiring, Personal

One of Sue Bryce's stunning captures from Jill's Paris photo shoot. Thrilled that Babble included Jill's picture in their !! If we ever met in real life, I'd like to think Jill Brzezinski-Conley and I would be instant friends. Hers is an incredible,...

A fool’s delusion, a cautionary tale and how Downton Abbey can save your life

by Robin | Jan 30, 2013 | Cancer is NOT okay!, Memoir, Personal

Image Source i. Stephanie was a little bitty thing. Even nine months pregnant she had coat hanger arms and matchstick legs and I wondered why her metabolism was in such a big hurry. She birthed her baby boy with no complication, but then she discovered...

Blame it on the reign…

by Robin | Sep 1, 2011 | Cancer is NOT okay!, Chattanooga, Encouragement, Faith, Gratitude, Great quotes, Kids, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal, Teens & Tweens

It is raining. There has never been a dryer month in Chattanooga than August 2011, and yet it pours. Growl and hiss, snarl and bite, it’s raining cats and dogs, the dangerous kind. Black lips curl over porcelain daggers, ready to sink in to flesh, to spill...

Jack’s Chattanoggins: bald for a cause!

by Robin | Jun 5, 2011 | Cancer is NOT okay!, Chattanooga, Chick-fil-A, Friends, friendship, Inspiring, Kids

He says he's just an ordinary sixth grader but the evidence is stacked against him: After reading Drums, Girls, And Dangerous Pie ("a story about a middle school boy whose younger brother is diagnosed with leukemia. The boy ends up...

Scars and redemption

by Robin | Mar 14, 2011 | Breast Cancer, Cancer is NOT okay!, Inspiring, Memoir, Mom stuff, Mothers and daughters, Personal

I remember seeing her scars one time. Only once. A body disfigured by diseased malevolence, a thief whose plunder demanded dignity and femininity and time…and eventually hope and life. It's a scant memory, a fleeting, vapored ghost, which I...