Having Cancer Empowered Me To Take More

Having Cancer Empowered Me To Take More Risks. I Knew Beating Cancer Was Going To Shape Me, But It Wasnt Going To Be All Of Me.

I Think Credibility Is One Of Those Things That, If You Work Hard And You Get It By Standing In The Trenches And Traveling The World, People Realize You're Multi-faceted. Part Of Me Is A Serious Journalist And I Loved All Of The Stuff I Did. And Then There's Another Part Of Me That Likes To Let Go And I Think A Lot Of Women Can Relate To That.

From Time To Time, I'll Look Back Through The Personal Journals I've Scribbled In Throughout My Life, The Keepers Of My Raw Thoughts And Emotions. The Words Poured Forth After My Dad Died, When I Went Through A Divorce, And After I Was Diagnosed With Breast Cancer. There Are So Many What-ifs Scribbled On Those Pages.

I Like The Pace Of My World. It's Busy, But For Me, The Less I Do The Lazier I Get.

I Can't Remember A Time When My Mom Didn't Work. She Has Forever Been On The Move: A Go-getter. When My Brother Adel And I Had A Paper Route As Kids, My Mom Would Get Up Before Us At The Crack Of Dawn To Drop Off The Washington Post At Different Corners.