Surviving a terrible disease takes more than wearing colored ribbons and using #Survivor in all of your social media updates. It takes fearlessness and gumption. Beating the disease is not just the act of getting rid of it. What do you do after the last dose of medication? The last…
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The Crazy Creole Mommy on The Right Start Blog
One of my favorite stores has given me a chance to post my opinion on their new blog, The Right Start blog. Being that I am a newly single mother, I’ve spent most of the past year trying to help my little one settle into a comfortable way of living in…
End Of A Diseased Era
It’s interesting looking back on my life with Colitis. For the past few months I’ve been obsessed with remembering moments and symptoms and comparing notes. I’m not really sure why. Maybe I’m trying to get a handle on a why and how. Why it happened? And how did it get…
The President’s Youngest Best Friend
Democrat or Republican, I’ve always been politically active and interested since I was a girl. My family believes in community, so we have always been socially conscious, philanthropic & politically aware. So it was inevitable that my having a child in the middle of this huge change in our nation’s executive…
I Heart Being A Parent
So my kid comes up to me randomly, gives me an embrace and then grabs my face and says, “Mommy, I’m so happy!” to which I say, “You are? I’m happy too!” And then he says, “Aww, I’m so happy Mommy. I wuv you. Can I have a donut?!” And…
Sparkles! The Only Way To Enjoy The Fourth of July!
Last December 2010 I lost a very a good friend of mine named, Chane’t Johnson. Every memory with her someone is smiling, someone is dancing, someone is laughing and someone is loving. One of my favorite and most vivid Fourth of July memories is with her. Wrote a blog about…