by Danielle Tantone | Feb 3, 2020 | Breast Cancer, Faith, Family & Relationships, Health & Wellness, Mindset, Mental Health & Entrepreneurship, Nursing, Night Shifts & School, People Stories
I’ve been relatively quiet on social media the past few months and a few people have reached out to make sure everything is OK. It wasn’t this big, planned out thing, nor was it a social media fast. I didn’t disconnect entirely, just became a little less vocal about...
by Danielle Tantone | Dec 21, 2019 | Faith, Family & Relationships
I have never been a poet. My thoughts come out in paragraphs, not alliterations, allusions, anaphoras and assonance. But I too prefer writing to speaking. The time it takes to type slows and smooths the jumbled edges of my feelings. On the outside I’m scattered...
by Danielle Tantone | Nov 24, 2019 | Breast Cancer, Faith, Family & Relationships, Health & Wellness, Mindset, Mental Health & Entrepreneurship, Nursing, Night Shifts & School, People Stories
I wrote this article to be published in the January issue of Las Sendas Life magazine, which is distributed in hard copy form to the I-don’t-know-how-many thousands of residents in our community each month. It’s basically an intro to my Breast Cancer...
by Danielle Tantone | Nov 8, 2019 | Faith, Family & Relationships, People Stories
Although my life has had a somewhat singular focus recently – breast cancer, getting rid of it and recovering from the getting rid of it – life does still keep going on and on. Kids still get colds and stay home from school. We still have to pay bills and...
by Danielle Tantone | Oct 29, 2019 | Breast Cancer, Faith, Family & Relationships, Nursing, Night Shifts & School
This post is the transcript of a short speech I delivered this morning at a women’s bible study at our church. The 7-week study started right before my cancer diagnosis and ended the day before my double mastectomy. It played a large part in fueling my peaceful...
by Danielle Tantone | Sep 24, 2019 | Breast Cancer, Faith, Family & Relationships, Health & Wellness, Mindset, Mental Health & Entrepreneurship, Nursing, Night Shifts & School
Friends, I have some news. Some bad and some good. Most of it very good! You will think I’m strange in a second for saying that it’s mostly very good, but to me it is. The bad news is I have breast cancer and will undergo a bilateral mastectomy in a few months… But...