by Martha Brettschneider | Sep 10, 2012 | Breast Cancer
Below is another excerpt from my book in progress, Feng Shui Animal House: Raking Sand in the Midst of the Chaos. It follows having the radiologist tell me that she was concerned about my follow-up mammogram results (click here to read about that). In my family, I am...
by Martha Brettschneider | Sep 5, 2012 | Feng Shui/Clutter Clearing
“[The professional] will not tolerate disorder. He eliminates chaos from his world in order to banish it from his mind. He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept so the Muse may enter and not soil her gown.” — Steven Pressfield, The War...
by Martha Brettschneider | Sep 3, 2012 | Life Lessons, Mindfulness Thought Leaders, Motivation
“Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.” Steven Pressfield, The War of Art The lake is perfectly still this morning, its glassy surface reflecting trees and docks along the shore. Even the ripples from our own boat have...
by Martha Brettschneider | Aug 30, 2012 | Life Lessons, Mindfulness
Dear readers, I will be back on a regular blogging schedule the first week of September. I was out of town with my family for several days this past week, making just one trip to the local library to post a blog entry. Although my blog frequency has declined in...
by Martha Brettschneider | Aug 25, 2012 | Breast Cancer
“Dear Ms. Brettschneider: Your mammogram performed on February 10, 2009 is considered incomplete. In order to complete the evaluation, we need additional imaging studies.” I read those lines and didn’t think twice about it. I had had mammograms...
