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Lymphoma Visionary of the Year Claire Benway: Cancer Thriver & Jesus Loving Thespian Extraordinaire

This post is a post celebrating a friend of mine I met at Maple Plain Community Church in 2020: Claire Benway! Claire loves Jesus and is a cancer thriver like me–instead of breast cancer, though, Claire is a non-Hodgkin-lymphoma thriver. Claire was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins-lymphoma in March 2024, finished intensive chemotherapy 6 months ago, and…

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My Breast Cancer Journey Part 46: My 3-Year-Survivorship Appointments (All Clear!) + Continued Ovarian Cancer Previvor Screening

This blog post is the 46th in a series about my (and twin sister’s) breast cancer journey that began when we were 30 years old in July 2019. In 2019, I also started documenting our younger sister’s breast cancer previvorship journey. Here is a list of all of the posts written about our journey at Mayo Clinic’s Breast Clinic…

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  • Lymphoma Visionary of the Year Claire Benway: Cancer Thriver & Jesus Loving Thespian Extraordinaire

    This post is a post celebrating a friend of mine I met at Maple Plain Community Church in 2020: Claire Benway! Claire loves Jesus and is a cancer thriver like me–instead of breast cancer, though, Claire is a non-Hodgkin-lymphoma thriver. Claire was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins-lymphoma in March 2024, finished intensive chemotherapy 6 months ago, and…

  • My Breast Cancer Journey Part 46: My 3-Year-Survivorship Appointments (All Clear!) + Continued Ovarian Cancer Previvor Screening

    This blog post is the 46th in a series about my (and twin sister’s) breast cancer journey that began when we were 30 years old in July 2019. In 2019, I also started documenting our younger sister’s breast cancer previvorship journey. Here is a list of all of the posts written about our journey at Mayo Clinic’s Breast Clinic…

  • My Breast Cancer Journey Part 45: My Twin Sister’s Baby Harold Robert is Here!

    This blog post is the 45th in a series about my (and twin sister’s) breast cancer journey that began when we were 30 years old in July 2019. In 2019, I also started documenting our younger sister’s breast cancer previvorship journey. Here is a list of all of the posts written about our journey at Mayo Clinic’s Breast Clinic…

  • My Breast Cancer Journey Part 44: My Twin Sister’s 36-Week Pregnant Breast Biopsy is “All Clear!” & Baby Harold Robert is Almost Here!

    This blog post is the 44th in a series about my (and twin sister’s) breast cancer journey that began when we were 30 years old in July 2019. In 2019, I also started documenting our younger sister’s breast cancer previvorship journey. Here is a list of all of the posts written about our journey at Mayo Clinic’s Breast Clinic…

  • My Breast Cancer Journey Part 43: My Twin Sister’s Baby Boy, Bobbie Formula Sponsorship, IVF & 18 Month Remission Appointment!

    This blog post is the 43rd in a series about my (and twin sister’s) breast cancer journey that began when we were 30 years old in July 2019. In 2019, I also started documenting our younger sister’s breast cancer previvorship journey. Here is a list of all of the posts written about our journey at Mayo Clinic’s Breast Clinic…

  • My Breast Cancer Journey Part 42: A News Story on KSTP-5!

    Last Thursday, October 27th, 2022, our whole family shared our breast cancer story during an interview with Emmy-award winning journalist Alex Jokich and KSTP-5 chief photographer Joe Caffrey! They put together an amazing news package that’s been airing on Channel 5 this entire weekend. Here’s a link to the main story on the KSTP news…

  • Breast Cancer Awareness Month & Real Men Wear Pink: 2022 Events Including Steinke Music Fireside Friday & Kick$ 4 A Cure!

    UPDATE (10/26/22): My dad has now raised almost $11,000 of his $15,000 goal for the month of October (Pinktober)! Here is a rundown of the events he hosted this past week: Chris Steinke’s 2022 Breast Cancer Awareness Fireside Friday You can watch Chris Steinke’s 2022 Breast Cancer Awareness Fireside Friday on Facebook or Instagram! In…

  • My Breast Cancer Journey Part 41: Survivorship, Motherhood, and Bobbie Formula!

    This blog post is the 41st in a series about my (and twin sister’s) breast cancer journey that began when we were 30 years old in July 2019. In 2019, I also started documenting our younger sister’s breast cancer previvorship journey. Here is a list of all of the posts written about our journey at Mayo Clinic’s Breast Clinic…

  • My Breast Cancer Journey Part 40: Plastic Surgery Graduation, Pregnancy, and Previvorship, Oh My!

    This blog post is the 40th in a series about my (and twin sister’s) breast cancer journey that began when we were 30 years old in July 2019. In 2019, I also started documenting our younger sister’s breast cancer previvorship journey. Here is a list of all of the posts written about our journey at Mayo Clinic’s Breast Clinic…

  • My Breast Cancer Journey Part 39: Babies & Breast Cancer Biopsies, Oh My! (I’m Pregnant & All Clear!)

    This blog post is the 39th in a series about my (and twin sister’s) preventative breast cancer screening journey that began when we were 30 years old in July 2019. Here is a list of all of the posts written about our journey at Mayo Clinic’s Breast Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, to date. To keep tabs on new posts, sign…

  • Willow Creek high school students making an ‘impact’ at home and abroad

    “Imagine what we could do if we all stepped up and decided to serve God. We would be unstoppable.” This quote, spoken by a high school student at Willow Creek Community Church’s Sunday morning “Student Impact” service in South Barrington, summed up his recent spring break trip to El Salvador. According to Brittany Lowen, regional…

  • Blazing trails: Wheaton club lacrosse style

    “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson- The Wheaton College Women’s Club Lacrosse team has been in existence for several years now, and is on track to gain varsity status in a couple of years. According to a recent article…

  • (Chicago) authors: writing a book should be ‘fun’!

    Tuesday, at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, we had the good fortune of hearing from Alec Klein, an award-winning investigative journalist who will be teaching a long-form non-fiction capstone class this summer. The goal of the class? To produce a long-form magazine feature piece, or, a chapter of a book, to hopefully be published…

  • Colonel Tribune’s Optimistic Joke of the Day

    <<< Colonel Tribune’s (optimistic) Joke of the Day >>> “How many optimists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?…” I’m a fan of Colonel Tribune for more than his refined style, tasteful jokes and dapper moustache – I love how he characterizes the Tribune (a short bio can be found here). If he weren’t…

  • The MOTH storySLAM: silver lining

    “Look at this! Standing- and, well, sitting room only!” the winner, Deb, said into the microphone. “You all are proof that the ancient art of storytelling is still very much alive.” Tuesday night, Deb, the winner of MOTH’s monthly StorySLAM competition addressed a packed house at the Haymarket Pub and Brewery on Halsted. She talked…

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