The NCAA Tournament is my favorite sporting event of the year. One thing I love about it is that every team has a chance. No matter how big or small a school that made it is, anything can happen on that game day. I love the thrills and drama of the tournament. There is nothing…
Trust the Process
Trust the Process became the Sixers slogan/strategy when they tanked under former GM Sam Hinkie to stockpile draft picks. Unfortunately many of the top picks the Sixers got didn’t work out: Okafor, Fultz and of course Ben Simmons. But one big piece of the process who remains is Joel Embiid, who is playing like a…
A Baby’s Name
Picking the baby’s name: the most fun and sometimes most stressful or hardest thing to figure out. Here’s how we arrived at ours for our little miracle. As diehard Phillies fans, you can probably figure out how we got his first name. But it went a little beyond that. This year Bryce Harper was the…
Letting Go of Control and Just Rolling With It
We spend so much of our life trying to control things only to grow older and wiser and realize there’s actually very little we can control. We spend our lives creating routines only to have to get rid of so many in order to go with the flow of whatever we are faced with that…
Love and Accept Yourself
It took me a long time to find my true love and for awhile I worried I would never meet Mr. Right. My mom would always tell me it’s when you least expect it that you’ll meet someone and you need to feel good about yourself first before you can meet someone. As was often…
The Race Against Cancer
I couldn’t help but think how running is like this cancer battle. There are hills to “crest” or conquer. I hated hills (who didn’t?) but you had to push yourself to the top and depending on the course, you often got a nice recovery on the downhill. My hills have been these chemo treatments, tough…
I Have Cancer…
Mid January, I decided to make my cancer diagnosis “Facebook official.” Here’s what I shared: I’ve decided to share about my health which I’ve kept fairly private for several months now. I’m doing this to hopefully change people’s perspective on this disease. In early November I was diagnosed with breast cancer, the same terrible disease…