I view Breast Cancer awareness from a UN-PINK perspective.This post may irritate a few people, but I'm going to go all chingona on this issue, which is near and dear to my own breasts.from my collection-by Yrenia Ortiz Last week I shared with you why I couldn't look at Pepto-Bismol bottles without cringing. This is not from an ungratefulness for the work of… Continue reading How To Go Beyond Pink
Category: October Breast Cancer Awareness
Why Pink Makes Me Cringe
It’s not Pink, the singer, that stirs up ambivalent feelings in my soul, it’s the color pink linked to October’s Breast Cancer Awareness month. It’s all the pink stuff beyond the commemorative ribbons. It’s pink deodorant containers, buckets of chicken, yogurt lids, pens, bottles, garden tools, and such. I can’t even look at Pepto-Bismol bottles… Continue reading Why Pink Makes Me Cringe
I Walk In Hope
Graphic by Digital Product©Yesterday was inspirational, hopeful, and overwhelming at times. My young cousin organized a Relay For Life team, named Walk to Remember, for the annual American Cancer Society. We walked for her Grandma Della who was my aunt. Both my uncles died from cancer too. I'm the only one who has survived and… Continue reading I Walk In Hope
Taking care of ‘The Girls’ and Our self
During October, you will see television commercials, magazine ads, and food stuffs advertising Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Sometimes I see these and get a little frustrated. I mean it's a good thing that there is so much awareness being given to Breast Cancer, but as a survivor (6 years) I get overwhelmed by all the… Continue reading Taking care of ‘The Girls’ and Our self
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