Having Cancer Empowered Me To Take More

In New York City, You Can Walk Down The Street And See A Girl In A Trench Who Looks Equally As Cool As A Girl Wearing Lululemon. It's Like You're Watching Models. You See A Little Of Everything Right By You.

I Can't Remember A Time When My Mom Didn't Work. She Has Forever Been On The Move: A Go-getter. When My Brother Adel And I Had A Paper Route As Kids, My Mom Would Get Up Before Us At The Crack Of Dawn To Drop Off The Washington Post At Different Corners.

People Think That You Have To Do Something Huge, Like Go To Africa And Build A School, But You Can Make A Small Change In A Day. If You Change Wednesday, Then You Change Thursday. Pretty Soon It's A Week, Then A Month, Then A Year. It's Bite-size, As Opposed To Feeling Like You Have To Turn Your Life Inside Out To Make Changes.

When My Shoes Are Killing Me, I Take A Maxi Pad And Put It In The Bottom Of My Shoe. It Is Better Than Any Dr. Scholl's Insert. That Fashion Tip Has Saved Me Through Some Long Nights.

Weight Is Just Not A Hot Button. In Fact, During My Life, It Probably Should Have Been On My Radar Screen A Bit More. I Look Back At Work Photos And Am Shocked. Was I Eating The People I Was Interviewing?! Good Lord, I Was Big.