Since this is the first email Newsletter of 2025, we wanted to take a moment to reflect and say… Thank you so much for an incredible 2024! With your help, Pinked Perspective experienced: Thank you to all the Local Pink Warriors that joined us for our last Empower Hour Workshop. Dr. Christy Asonglefac kicked off our time […]
First Wednesday of February…Are you Kitting Me?
“Awake” is my word for 2024. I heard a great recommendation in a podcast shortly after the first of the year that instead of settling in on goals for change in the first week of January that I should take all of January to contemplate what I want for the year ahead. And so I […]
First Monday…Are You Kitting Me? (September Edition)
September often feels like a new year. Kids are going back to school, summer comes to an end and work schedules become more regulated. September 2020 seems to be the beginning of our “new normal”. In the spring we found COVID-19 scary, confusing and thought to be short-term; in the summer we tolerated restrictions on […]
First Monday…Are You Kitting Me? (August Edition)
This past week we celebrated nine years since diagnosis day. For fun I looked back at my photo/video library from the days surrounding those initial days of diagnosis. I posted a video on our social media from that day July 29, 2011 sitting at the dinner table watching our littles (then 3 y.o. and 18 […]
Special Thanks to Bosom Buddies Charities
Special Thanks to friends and partners in the mission of supporting those facing a breast cancer diagnosis: Bosom Buddies Charities As a small non-profit, we take great joy in collaboration with other organizations with similar missions. We are so thrilled to announce that Pinked Perspective was recently awarded a grant by Bosom Buddies Charities in support […]
First Monday…Are you Kitting Me? (August Edition)
Exciting things are happening on this 1st Monday! I have the privilege of joining a Breast Cancer support group to share about Pinked Perspective’s mission this evening at the Green Spring location of Johns Hopkins Breast Center. Many months ago, I got to meet up with the awesome Jill Mull and Elizabeth Saylor, patient navigators […]
Reminders from the Ceiling Tiles (RePost)
I feel truly blessed to live just outside of Annapolis and have access to such an amazing Breast Center at Anne Arundel Medical Center. When I reflect on those days of going through treatment 7 years ago, I can’t help but be so proud of what we have for Breast Cancer care just minutes down […]
Friday Introductions: Wendy
Since Pinked Perspective would never function with just me, I feel the need to start introducing you to some key players behind this ministry of supporting those facing a breast cancer diagnosis. Today I am introducing you to my friend, Wendy! Many of the sweetest moments of Pinked Perspective at our Think Pink Events over […]
October Grace
If I am honest, I have mixed emotions about October. As it approaches every year, I try to brace myself for it. I brace for the struggle of it because the discouraging moments are bound to come. But in the end, I find I am bracing more for the moments that blow me away and […]
My 5 Year Hair Journey
My last post was a repost of some thoughts after being given my formal diagnosis on Friday, July 29, 2011. That was the day we met with the breast surgeon and nurse navigator to hear the pathology results from my biopsy two days before. There was a lot of information thrown our way that afternoon. […]
A Day to Grieve {A 5 Year Anniversary RePost}
One of my absolute favorite things are photos. I can be a kinda annoying about it but I have found that it is my way (sometimes my only way) of remembering a moment in time. There are so many great moments in life that I want to remember. I want to remember the joy I […]
Divine Appointment {A 5 Year Anniversary RePost}
From an article originally posted on 7/27/11…. My mammogram/sonogram was scheduled for 8:30 am and I left the house with plenty of time to get to AAMC. Blake would be leaving the house shortly after me for work so my mom was coming to watch the kids. But of course when living in Arnold and […]
Reminders From The Ceiling Tiles
Lately I have been reading Dr David Jeremiah and looking up at a few of these again. These two things take me back to a very unsettling time. Dr David Jeremiah’s book When Your World Falls Apart (along with Jesus Calling) is what I ran to in the desperate days when I first learned of […]
Tuesday Small
Today is not a Tuesday, but four years ago on this date, it happened to be a Tuesday. I wrote about the significance of the events of that day in a post entitled Divine Appointment. Lately I have been reading a lot about Tuesdays in Emily Freeman’s yet to be released book Simply Tuesday. [only […]
What If….
I can say that cancer and suffering give the beautiful gift of perspective. It is the gift you never wanted , the gift wrapped in confusion and brokenness and heartbreak. It’s the gift that strips all your other ideas of living from you completely. The beautiful, ugly raising to the surface of the importance of […]