It is in all of us. Right behind our greatest gift, the power to love, is the power to forgive. The human heart is a fragile thing, love shores it up, but hatred and revenge break it down. Sometimes our…

LIFE KEPT GOING. As hard as it was to believe. The day after, the sun came up, the earth kept spinning. Shock had turned to new depths of sorrow. The unbelievable, the unthinkable, the unimaginable had happened. Yet the world…

THERE WAS A TIME they couldn’t speak, only smile, cry and maybe make a babbling sound or two. Though we couldn’t have a conversation, they could do one thing like no one else in the world, speak right to my…

“The two most important days of your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain This is one that made me stop and say, “wow”. I’ve read a number of books…

EVEN NOW AS I reflect back on our appointment at Little Vinnie’s Tattoo Shop, it is hard not to get a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes. From cancer diagnosis, to mastectomy, to reconstruction, to revisions, to…

A FRIEND OF mine, Pete Kohlasch, discovered the following quote: “The three components of happiness are something to do, someone to love and something to look forward to. Think about it. If we have useful work, sustaining relationships and the…

Two Days. Two Breasts. Two Nipples. It Takes 2. On September 4th, two days from now, Debbie and I return to Little Vinnie’s Tattoo Shop in Finksburg, MD with another shot at a piece of redemption. http://www.vice.com/read/breast-cancer-survivors-find-the-michelangelo-of-nipple-tattoos Back in March…