Uncategorized Of Little Pills and Nausea and Grace
January 14, 2024 KimHarms 1Comment

I threw up into my hand while driving home from my workout class last week.Sometimes I feel like my body hates me.Sometimes life just feels pretty unfair.I’m adjusting to a keep-the-cancer-away pill that I have to take morning and night for two years. I have to gear myself up every morning to take it knowing the side effects will kick in soon after.Nausea is one of them.I hate throwing up.But I really like living.Therein lies the quandary.This morning God gifted me with this quote, a beautiful white coating of snow and a really good (nausea-free) workout prior to taking my…

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Uncategorized Breast Cancer Take Two
February 9, 2023 KimHarms 3Comment

Since finding a lump in my armpit on the eve of the 7th anniversary of my first breast cancer diagnosis, my life has been moving in both high speed and slow motion.  Appointments, ultrasounds, biopsies, tests, scans, x-rays. . . And in between all those things, the waiting and waiting for phone calls with answers to questions I don’t even want to be in a position to be asking. The waiting is awful, so awful in so many ways. But there is a strange beauty in it too. The heaviness pushes me to my knees because I literally have no…

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Breast Cancer Life Reconstructed – Out of the Office
February 17, 2019 KimHarms

Mastectomy Pillows I will not be able to respond to pillow requests from February 18 – February 22, because I will be sitting on a beach in Mexico reading lots of books, hanging out with my favorite guy and eating food cooked by someone else. 20th Anniversary trip, here we come!

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Parenting Flip Shots on YouTube (A Shameless Plug)
December 28, 2018 KimHarms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfoNPeGHfDg Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.Dorothy Parker My middle son, Owen, was born with equal parts imagination and a determination (stubbornness may be a more accurate term.) I believe both of these things play a role in his ability to create some pretty cool trick-shot videos for Flip Shots, his YouTube channel. I didn’t always appreciate the screaming little towhead throwing fits in public places… but I do love to see that determination come through when he teaches himself new things like how to use video-editing software. I’m a bit of a biased mama, but I…

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