I never thought I’d talk about my experiences with #rejection, in which I’ve had A LOT.  This post is about professional rejection, but it seems to have been a theme (among others) throughout other areas of my life.  I’ve read that when certain situations repeatedly play out differently throughout periods of your life, there’s a lesson to be learned. I’m a great teacher; no one can tell me differently, especially because colleagues, administrators, students, and parents have

(Warning! Graphic images below!) I think my story starts before I had cancer, or maybe I should say it started before I knew I had cancer for I don't know how long it was there. I think this journey started in conversations and in watching other people go through it, especially within the last two years before I was diagnosed. I remember having conversations with one of my sister-friends (Tiffany), who is a registered nurse and a realtor, about how if she was ever diagnosed