I Don't Want To Be 'the Girl

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.

When My Shoes Are Killing Me, I Take A Maxi Pad And Put It In The Bottom Of My Shoe. It Is Better Than Any Dr. Scholl's Insert. That Fashion Tip Has Saved Me Through Some Long Nights.

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'm An Optimist, So I Think Everything Can Be Worked Out And Fixed. But From Having Cancer I Learned That Even If You're Even An Optimist, Sometimes You Just Have To Face The Facts That Certain Things Are Broken.

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.