(Copyright The Big C and Me 2017) I apologize for not blogging at all in 2017. Yikers! I promise to catch you up soon, and am sneaking i...

(Photo © TheBigCandMe) It's been a good long while since I've updated this blog (as you may have noticed!), and while I think a...

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I've been writing about Pinktober since I started this blog in 2011. See 2011's  The Hunt for Pink October , 2012's  Six-Word ...

Nancy  over at Nancy's Point  recently blogged about a phenomenon that many of us have to deal with post cancer: people saying stupid s...

Copyright 2015 TheBigCandMe.blogspot.com Thanks to Nancy's Point , I'm tossing my sun visor into the "15 Random Facts Abo...

I wanted to share a beautiful, personal and poignant essay that my friend Kim wrote about the many complications of motherhood. It's en...

Do you find breast cancer blogs helpful? If so, please consider taking a brief survey by fellow breast cancer blogger Rebecca Hogue .  Rebec...

Lisa Bonchek Adams was like a phoenix, rising. (Copyright Lisa Bonchek Adams) She was a beacon of honesty. The transparency in her ...

(Copyright 2015 TheBigCandMe) I'm woefully behind in blogging. Six weeks into 2015 — and this is my first post. I'm jumping in...

As we say so long to 2014, here is my wish for us all in 2015: May you have... The strength to say NO to the things you don't want ...

(Copyright 2014 TheBigCandMe) Four years ago today, December 8th, 2010,  cancer called my house. (Actually, Dr. S. called; he gave me t...

We are smack dab in the middle of Pinktober. Hmmm. I  created a couple of Six-Word Memoir  memes a while back, and thought I'd sha...

In two days, the first day of "Pinktober" will have arrived. Again. Rather than rehash my feelings about the pinkification o...

You've seen the videos all over Facebook and other social media: People participating in The Ice Bucket Challenge to raise money and awa...

Below is something I wrote two years ago. (My writing mojo seems to have taken some kind of summer sabbatical, so I'm dusting off a popu...

(Copyright 2014 Green Monkey Tales) You may remember my blogging buddy, Shannon, a la Green Monkey Tales fame; we bonded over our breas...

Thank you to my blogging buddy extraordinaire  Jan Hasak  for asking me to participate in a world-wide "Blog Tour" that asks four...

The Rubies   are back!  Diagnosed with breast cancer within weeks of each other, we were a string of strangers that met via  breastcancer.or...

  ©  TheBigCandMe.Blogspot.com I came across a blog post that feels worthy of a repost .  Originally written as a letter to my 16-ye...