This is the short story of how âValerieâ, thatâs me on the left, discovered a way of âmaking women feel and look beautiful after breast cancer in Irelandâ and why like most women, itâs a subject we often donât get to talk about.   (original article was written by Valerie & printed by Happy Magazine 2019)
It is another very hot day in this great âSouthern Stateâ of the US. I am sitting here with my new Texan friends and they are aghast, listening to recent family camping experiences during our afternoon together. âHave you not heard about the rattlesnakes, Miss Valerie?â âDonât you know we have wild hogs here in the Hill Country? The Texan drawl was unmistakable, reminiscent of all those groundbreaking new TV soaps that arrived in Ireland during the â80s.
Feeling like a visitor on the set of Dallas, I wondered would they start just calling me âValerieâ. It wasnât quite easy to figure out whether being called a âMissâ was too old or too young a label in their eyes. This is my third get-together with these women and Continue reading→