5 YEARS AND COUNTING

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It's been a good long while since I've updated this blog (as you may have noticed!), and while I think about writing often, it never seems to happen. Today, faced with a new year, I have mere hours left to post an update. This will be my last post in 2016. And also my first. 

I guess I didn't write much in 2016!

That doesn't mean nothing happened this year. Quite the contrary. Plenty of good happened (and a bit of bad, too).

REAR-VIEW MIRRORING

Lately I've noticed friends on Facebook participating in a sharing game about their lives. Maybe you've seen it: You leave a message on a pal's wall who has already shared details about themselves; your friend then emails you a number — that's how many tidbits you're supposed to reveal about yourself. 

I never found that game enticing...

VINTAGE ME, DAY 19

DAY 19 of #HAWMC — post a vintage image of myself and write a caption about it.

This photo was taken:

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• 6 months after my siblings spun me around in my father's office chair, sending me flying into the furnace.

• 3 years before I would slice my lip on a broken china cup while pretending to sip tea with my dolls.

• 4 years before I would see the Pieta at the New York World's Fair.

• 7 years before I would develop a fear of dogs after being bitten by a German Shepherd, leaving me with a scar near my eye...

ACROSTIC BREAST CANCER, DAY 13

DAY 13 of the #HAWMC challenge: Write a health "acrostic" (acrostic = a poem where every letter of a word serves as the first letter of a word or phrase) for my health condition. Since I write about breast cancer and reconstruction, I've combined them.

BILATERAL

RECONSTRUCTION:

ELECTIVE,

AGGRESSIVE

SURGICAL

THERAPY.

CANCER

ANNIHILATES

NORMALCY,

CREATING

EGREGIOUS

REPERCUSSIONS.

SIX-WORD MEMOIR: PINKTOBER

I'm bringing back the Six-Word Memoir® challenge! 

Last May, our six word challenge was about cancer in general (see that post here). Many in the blogosphere joined in. Now I'd like to focus on breast cancer and Pinktober. 

So I'm challenging you...