Honoring Breast Cancer Survivors or Victims

One of the ways to honor someone is to put together a tribute album to them – for a birthday, for retirement, for a special occasion, etc. One of the best presents I ever received was a photo collage of pictures from college until now. That took a lot of time to go back through…

Got Mammogram?

I got a (wake up) call today from Kaiser saying it’s time to come in for a mammogram. The recorded message went on about the importance of early detection and how effective mammograms are as an early breast cancer detection method. I know there are other less invasive methods of getting screened, but those aren’t…

Breast Cancer Awareness or Just Pink Washing?

I wanted to provide a summary of the things I highlighted this week for breast cancer awareness. If you want to support breast cancer by purchasing a multitude of “pink” products, I highlighted a few products that I liked. If you want to support the effort to find a cure for breast cancer – look…

Pink Everywhere

Three things happened today to indicate that the breast cancer awareness campaign is working. I went to Safeway to get a few things for a BBQ and found pink everywhere. As we picked out yoghurt the kids were trying to convince me that we should get the yoghurt with M&Ms on top (to stir in)…