(35 Weeks)
Today, September 10th, is National Suicide Prevention Day. This is a day I wish I knew nothing about. This is a day I wish I didn’t care about, didn’t write about, didn’t feel the need to acknowledge. I wish no one did.
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Author: thecausecoach
Sixty Weeks to 60: Beyond M.B.S.
(36 Weeks)
The excitement began to build sometime in mid-August long before the trees turned or brisk mornings signaled the change of seasons. While back-to-school shopping, nervous enthusiasm ruled, anticipating the changes that the new school year would bring.
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Sixty Weeks to 60: The Most Memorable Summer
(37 Weeks)
Summer unofficially always started Memorial Day weekend, even though in New Jersey, school wasn’t done until the middle of June and the calendar didn’t say so until a week after that. Regardless, summer was always time for creating memories – memories made on holiday weekends, family vacations, special outings with friends, and mostly a lot of unstructured time.
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Sixty Weeks to 60: Survivorship
(38 Weeks)
Surviving cancer is a big deal. 2024 marks ten years for me.
I feel odd at times defining myself as a cancer survivor. I was one of the very lucky ones. It was caught early. A lumpectomy and four weeks of radiation. That’s it. I opted against chemotherapy. After much research, I believed, in my case, the risk wouldn’t outweigh the benefit.
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Sixty Weeks to 60: Summer Vacation (part 2)
(39 Weeks)
The final family summer road trip was to Disney World in 2007. It was going to be an epic two-week trip that included an extended stop-over in Savanah, Georgia on the way down and another in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor for 4th of July weekend on the way home. We didn’t tell our daughter as we made the plan because we wanted to surprise her.
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