Creative Success Depends on Long View
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Bucket List, Here I Come!
Recently in one of my latest trips to the doctor the topic of discussion was what was new regarding my cancer.
“Karen,” the doctor opened up her conversation, ‘Your cancer has spread to your liver. As it looks you have a few months to [...]
Ready To Fight
The pain in my hips was increasing.
Walking, sitting and standing became a difficult if not impossible task. The only thing I was able to do was lay on my stomach on my bed. It was from that position I ate my meals and did my work from my laptop [...]
Who Put The Question Mark On My TelePrompTer?
One evening as I sat and watched the news the story they were talking about caught my attention.
They were interviewing a news reporter who went through an experience with his teleprompter that disrupted an interview he was doing.
What was supposed [...]
Awareness That Counts
As I sat down to watch Sunday night football recently with my husband I was caught off guard by the amount of pink on the field.
Helmets dressed in pink, pink socks, pink ribbons and so much more.
Turning to my husband I asked them what they [...]
Waiting For Life’s Storms To Pass
Stress Fighter tip #7: Weathering life’s storms.
Sometimes when life is hitting us pretty hard the best thing we can do to fight the stress that comes with it is bow our heads, say a prayer and weather the storm. In other words, we need to [...]
Dancing With The Fly Strip Of Stress
Stress Fighter tip #6: Don’t tangle with the fly strip.
One day as I was doing something in my office I was so pre-occupied with my task at hand that I wasn’t paying attention to outside elements.
Elements such as the sticky fly strip I [...]
A Longer Hope
Stress fighter tip #5: Hope longer.
Shortly after I was diagnosed with cancer I went to a concert with my family.
As I sat there enjoying the music I was fighting the tears that wanted to flow down my cheeks.
I kept wondering if this was going [...]
Cured Or Not Cured
As the calendar pages slowly flipped to the start of each month, the anniversary of my cure from epilepsy approached.
June 13, 1990 was the day I was set free from being disabled for 12 years. At last I was what they considered “cured”.
Each [...]
Re-focusing Life’s Lens
My camera lens was set.
The target I was after to capture was our daughter participating in her 4th grade Christmas program. Excitement was welling up inside of me as I was anxious to get a good picture of her performance.
As the kids entered [...]
One Too Many
The waiting room was quiet.
It gave me time to think about what I was there for as I waited for my name to be called. Recently I had joined my husband and other people and caught what was called the “common” cold. Unfortunately for me it [...]
A Hand-In-Hand Journey
It doesn’t seem like it there is a place where cancer and stress do not go along hand-in-hand.
The odds of getting cancer can be very high for some and almost zero for others. However, when it comes to stress that is something that everyone [...]
The Fight Against Stress
As the chest pains increased my daughter decided to take me to the emergency room at the local hospital.
The first thing the ER nurse asked me was, “Do you have stress in your life?” If I wasn’t in so much pain I probably would have said, [...]
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