A former Marriott coworker posted this quote on his Facebook page a couple of months ago. It really resonated with me for so many reasons. In the most literal sense, this quote echos a conversation mom and I had when I was in the hospital recovering from my hysterectomy in early January. We were reflecting […]

Today was my final radiation treatment. The Ironwoman Cancer Triathlon is over, and I’ve won. I am no longer a “cancer patient.” As of now, I am officially a “cancer survivor,” a badge which I will wear proudly for the rest of my life. Over the past eight months since this Triathlon began, so many people […]

It was the Fall of 1975, and I was sitting in a hot, stuffy classroom in James Madison High School (Vienna, Va.) struggling through Algebra II/Trig. I remember staring blankly at a complicated equation on the blackboard and muttering under my breath, “I know for a FACT that I will never use any of this […]