Happy Anniversary to Let Life Happen
January 15, 2012 by Barbara Jacoby
Filed under Breast Cancer, Creating Happiness, Domestic Abuse, Recent Posts
TweetSo, you have recently been diagnosed with breast cancer for the second time and you are facing a double mastectomy and reconstruction along with a parathyroid/thyroid surgery at some point. What do you do? Yes, I did go to Disneyland. But, if you are me and you have the most supportive and awesome husband imaginable, [...]
Compassion
January 8, 2012 by Barbara Jacoby
Filed under Breast Cancer, Creating Happiness, Recent Posts
TweetCompassion is defined by Dictionary.com as “a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering”. That sounds about right to me. In situation like natural disasters, we all feel so very sorry for those affected and we reach into our pockets [...]
A Special Birthday Tribute
July 18, 2010 by Barbara Jacoby
Filed under Creating Happiness, Recent Posts
TweetThis week is my husband Kirk’s birthday. For those who are regular visitors here, you know that he is responsible for this website but in addition, he is the light of my life. I don’t know how I could have gotten through so many tough times, not the least of which has been my cancer [...]
A Special Tribute to My Husband
January 23, 2010 by Barbara Jacoby
Filed under Breast Cancer, Creating Happiness, Recent Posts
TweetJanuary 22nd has become a very special day to me. Not only is it the 2nd anniversary of writing my weekly blog but also I walked out of the doctor’s office yesterday after my final follow up after my reconstructive surgery. I feel so free. But, the next thing that came into my mind is [...]
The Father / Daughter Relationship
June 21, 2009 by Barbara Jacoby
Filed under Creating Happiness
TweetThe most important relationship that any girl has with a parent is the one with her father. As today is Father’s Day, I felt that it was only fitting to discuss the relationship that I had with my own father that formulated the person that I am today. First of all, I would like to [...]
Happy Anniversary
June 7, 2009 by Barbara Jacoby
Filed under Creating Happiness
TweetToday Kirk and I celebrate our 13th wedding anniversary. It would have also been my parents’ 68th anniversary if they were still alive. As I told Kirk at the time, I wanted to get married on that date because if our marriage was half as successful as theirs was, I would really be very happy. [...]
My Support System
December 7, 2008 by Barbara Jacoby
Filed under Breast Cancer, Creating Happiness
TweetI stopped by the office of one of my colleagues last week to see how she was doing. Monica is a wonderful person who is married, has 3 young children and she is also taking care of her parents who live in her home. Her father is a diabetic who is receiving dialysis several times [...]
A Special Day
April 8, 2008 by Barbara Jacoby
Filed under Creating Happiness
TweetToday is April 8th and this is a very special day in my life. It was my father’s birthday. My father passed away on January 2, 1989. On April 8, 1989, I met Kirk and another special friend. I remember that as I returned home after meeting these two people that I realized that it [...]
Friends
March 4, 2008 by Barbara Jacoby
Filed under Creating Happiness
TweetYesterday was one of those days that lives in your mind forever. Earlier in the week, Kirk had indicated that he had a surprise for me on Sunday but wouldn’t tell me what it was. Okay, that was fine with me. He told me that we had to be ready to leave by 8:45 a.m. [...]
