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What I Wish I Had Known at 16

May 14, 2012
What I wished I had known at 16 | Ciao Mom

Sixteen is a magical age. A tragic age. A dramatic age. This week at Just.Be.Enough. we are thinking back to the time when WE were sixteen. Thinking back to what we would tell ourselves about being enough, coping with life, and realizing that there is so much more life to be lived. You know how [...]

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I am Thankful for Cancer

March 1, 2012
Thankful for Cancer | Ciao Mom

March is going to be a big month for me. For lots of reasons. Good reasons. Hard reasons. Sad reasons. Exciting reasons.  I will do lots of sharing, over time. To kick it off today, I would like to start with a letter written to Principessa. ——- I am thankful….that I had cancer. The fact [...]

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Just Because

February 22, 2012
Just Because | Ciao Mom

Tonight I am here, just because. Just because it was a day where I forgot to apply the filter (that I don’t really have) to my conversations. Just because I started to question that things (BIG) things that I have spent so much time thinking about lately. Just because I verbalized things that were better [...]

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Thinking Ahead to a New Year

December 22, 2011
Creativity | Ciao Mom

This has been a reflective week.  A week where I came face to face with the reality of menopause and a probably hysterectomy.  I mourned, and I will probably still mourn. But?  It is time to think ahead. To think beyond. Thinking ahead to a new year,  I have big plans.  Plans that involve risk [...]

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I Am Not Ready

December 20, 2011
Pour your heart out

  This is not how I expected the year to end. Feeling warm, flushed….yet having no temperature. Feeling disoriented, distracted, disorganized, and forgetful. Feeling quick to pounce, and not in control of the flood gates that are my eyes. Feeling agitated and restless. Feeling too lethargic to workout, too fatigued, too spent. I thought that [...]

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Fitness Motivation by the Numbers

December 1, 2011
Fitness Motivation by the Numbers | Ciao Mom

In 2001, I ran a marathon because my oncologist told me I would never be able to. In 2011, I got back on my bike after twelve years of being afraid of it to compete in my first ever sprint triathlon. And then, I signed up for and participated in another, because I loved it [...]

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In That Moment

November 22, 2011
Using images to inpsire writing | C.Mom

Last week, I wrote about using images to inspire writing.  As I wrote it, and reflected on this one image, taken in 2007, while on a trip to Italy, my brain went into overload. My heart skipped a few beats.  I was drawn to the expression on my face, and found myself remembering  all that [...]

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Five Ways to Regain Your Sanity

November 10, 2011
trip to the emergency room | C.Mom

I almost lost every remaining ounce of sanity (and there are not that many left) left in my body last week.  A call to 911 for my ex-husband, a trip to the emergency room for Principessa who it turns out, had broken her arm by falling off the monkey bars at recess, a seven year [...]

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Waving the White Flag

November 3, 2011
Waving the White Flag | C.Mom

Three posts in draft. A to do list that is a mile long. A birthday party for Principessa in just three days. A houseful of family coming to visit in one day. And yet, tonight, after a doozy of a week, I can only do one thing. I am ready for this day, this week, [...]

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One Thing I Have Done

October 27, 2011
GE television audition | C.Mom

Last week, I made a list of 22 things I had never done.  This week, I am flipping the switch, and thinking about things ONE thing I have done.  One thing that was leaps and bounds beyond my comfort zone. One thing that I am thankful for. One thing that had dreaming, aspiring, and in [...]

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