by Danielle | May 19, 2020 | Faith, Family & Relationships, Nursing, Night Shifts & School
My precious four-year-old refers to this time as Coronavirus Time. To her it’s a happy time with lots of snuggles and baking. Even when my Uncle died of Covid-19 last month, I don’t think the dots connected for her. And I’m OK with that. Frankly, I don’t think the...
by Danielle | Apr 11, 2020 | Faith, Family & Relationships
I awake in the middle of the night with a tightness in my belly, a heaviness in my chest. I have been working on identifying negative emotions and sitting with them for a while, rather than simply trying to stuff them or numb them. I ask my body what’s wrong,...
by Danielle | Mar 15, 2020 | Faith, Family & Relationships, Health & Wellness
My, how life can change in a week! Last week I posted an article about how we were still going to Disneyland despite my recent surgery and the Coronavirus, which at the time, was just shy of an official pandemic. We had a wonderful trip and made fabulous memories,...
by Danielle | Feb 3, 2020 | Breast Cancer, Faith, Family & Relationships, Health & Wellness, Home & Real Estate, Mindset, Mental Health & Entrepreneurship, Nursing, Night Shifts & School, People Stories
I’ve been relatively quiet on social media the past few months and a few people have reached out to make sure everything is OK. It wasn’t this big, planned out thing, nor was it a social media fast. I didn’t disconnect entirely, just became a little less vocal about...
by Danielle | Dec 21, 2019 | Faith, Family & Relationships
I have never been a poet. My thoughts come out in paragraphs, not alliterations, allusions, anaphoras and assonance. But I too prefer writing to speaking. The time it takes to type slows and smooths the jumbled edges of my feelings. On the outside I’m scattered...
by Danielle | Nov 24, 2019 | Breast Cancer, Faith, Family & Relationships, Health & Wellness, Mindset, Mental Health & Entrepreneurship, Nursing, Night Shifts & School, People Stories
I wrote this article to be published in the January issue of Las Sendas Life magazine, which is distributed in hard copy form to the I-don’t-know-how-many thousands of residents in our community each month. It’s basically an intro to my Breast Cancer...
