Author Archives: Sandra Cadogan-Beebe

The Risk and the Ride

When the weather holds up, summertime brings lots of options for outdoor activities that are not as well-suited to the colder months. Motorcycling, for example. Here in New England, unless you’re a true die hard, once the evening frost comes … Continue reading

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Carpe Diem (don’t get hurt!)

If you’ve been around here long enough, you know that when it’s my turn to blog I am not shy to write about my latest puppy project or about various aspects of my cancer journey. Maybe I should get these … Continue reading

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Now It Makes Sense! – What the Green Monster Taught Me About Risk Management

We decided recently to sell our home. Not quite sure if we had missed the buying and selling craze of this past year where both home inventory and interest rates were still low and prices were climbing sky high, we … Continue reading

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Pride 2022

Today is June 1st and you’ve probably noticed a big uptick of rainbow flags everywhere, including on Jimmy Fund Way outside the Dana lobby. I bet, if you look around, you’ll see them waving in the breeze through the entire … Continue reading

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I Don’t Think We’re in Kansas, Toto

(Author Note: written September 2, 2021) I was in my basement at midnight last night cozied up with the two Sheltie pups, Gracie the cat, and my wife. No, we weren’t binge-watching Bosch on Amazon. And no, this time I … Continue reading

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The Last Word On 2020

2020 is dead to me! I know I’ve got some serious consensus on this one. It’s been rough, no doubt, and everyone has some version and some story. We’ve hoped, we’ve mourned, we’ve persevered, we’ve rallied, we’ve hunkered down. All … Continue reading

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Zooming Through the Pandemic, One Shingle at A Time

7 years ago, I moved up the East Coast to Massachusetts, forty miles away from the LMA and down the South Shore in Plymouth. We were fortunate to buy a home with enough space for me to set up a … Continue reading

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Life Lessons from The Talking Dead

Winding down from the three-day Labor Day weekend I found myself on Hulu streaming a 2017 HLN episode of Inside with Chris Cuomo, The Talking Dead. It was late Monday night, I was procrastinating from turning in and so I … Continue reading

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It’s Amazing What A Simple Kind Word Can Do

It’s been five months since I’ve written a blog post and of course I am tempted to write about the Patriots’ sixth Super Bowl championship. This win is a gift to blocked writers across New England, a blog softball lobbed … Continue reading

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Survivorship Is Not How I Expected It to Be

I don’t often think about it, but I realized today that this week marks 6 months since I completed the full shebang of cancer treatment here at Dana-Farber. I should have put two and two together when checking in last … Continue reading

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