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Shmaccompishments.

2010 started off ruff. It was a really cruddy beginning to the new year, and as my often-pessimistic widda attitude warrants, I wasn't excited for 2010 at all. But then, I won an award for my 2009 article with Associated Content on U.S. healthcare. This was an

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Full Circle

Life comes full circle. Maybe it's too cliche to say that, but today, as I logged on to see if my Profs had posted any grades for the end of the semester, and I saw I earned a 100% on my marketing plan, I thought, wow. I did

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Graduation

On December 18th, I'll graduate from Harrisburg Area Community College with my Associate's Degree in Business Studies. It's about time. I graduated from high school in 2002, and went straight into college at Penn State University, York Campus, intending to study Advertising/Public Relations.

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Doors Opening

For my regular blog readers, I am sure you have taken notice to a slightly different layout on my blog. You notice I have media posted, information about my speaking availability, basically a bunch of self-promotion. I have been actively "chasing" opportunities to speak locally to churches, women&

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The Best Story

Isn't there a quote somewhere about the best stories are the ones that you live? Ok, maybe I'm making that up, but most likely I just combined two quotes I know into one. Whatever it is, I have a story. This story of long distance love,

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Memoirs recalling the Memories

I am working on the memoir.  No, not the novel, not the novella, or even the book, the memoir: Round one of my life.  I did not know exactly where I left off in the memoir, but had I, I maybe would not have sat down with my laptop tonight

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Memorial

This is what I was up to last night...my memorial tattoo for Kevin-a fishing rod hooked to a Canadian maple leaf http://twitgoo.com/pxf03 http://twitgoo.com/pxezr?cx=u http://twitgoo.com/pxeza?cx=u http://twitgoo.com/pxevo?cx=u http://twitgoo.com/pxev4?cx=u

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Do What You Want

A friend said something to me the other evening over a couple of drinks...she said "Brenda, it doesn't really MATTER what I think". I denied that it absolutely did matter, but the more I thought about it, my mind truly opened up. It didn'

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Transitions

Life is constantly in a state of transition. I'm coming down to the last 4 weeks of the semester, the weather is warming to the point of outdoor vacations, I am moving into the dating world, my job is expanding to good things, and I'm continuing

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Novel Excerpt

I am STILL working on the novel-you thought I wasn't didn't you?! I'm back into it again, 40 pages and nearly 19,000 words done and so much to go. It's hard doing the shadow writing-one entry of our love story, the

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Widows, Dating, Baggage, Not so NICE, and Drunken Botox Injected Women. A reflection.

Here is the link to my today show segment-Watch and then Read: Some people using Firefox have had trouble opening it, so use another browser: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/35237013#35237013 Just last week I had submitted a question via the Today Show website (linked on

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2009 People's Media Choice Awards: Content of the Year

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2620507/4th_annual_peoples_media_awards_content_pg2.html?cat=9 Recognition. 450,000 pieces of content were published on Associated Content in 2009, and some of there were by yours truly. Out of those 450k, 1,000 were selected to be recognized and reviewed

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Chapter 5,295,320

http://www.theboitsons.info/?p=942 "Chapters" The link above is to a Sermon that Past Dan Houck gave at 'The Table" community church last November. One that truly changed my grieving journey-a sermon I often think back to. I went on the hunt for this

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Twidow

Through the great social networking site, Twitter, I've had opportunity to connect with the downtown community, meet new people, and also relate to other widow(er)s and angiosarcoma/sarcoma patients and their families. I've sort of become the "geek" of my family and

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ONE

Today, at this time, one year ago, 10/28/2008, Kevin Edward Boitson lost his battle with a rare Angiosarcoma tumor that not only engulfed his body, but with it took our lives, and his life. Kevin was just 36; He and I were blessed to have been together 3

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The Photo Shoot...

..and I give you, the Photo Shoot. Courtesy of Russell Frost of Frost Imagine (http://www.forstimaging.com) and Christine Minnich (http://www.unveiledpatterns.com/) who graciously donated their time and effort to my sunrise shoot of "Trash the Dress". The shots were taken at New Danville Mennonite

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Where is She?

Where am I? Where is she? Where's the girl who let loose, dreamed big, loved unabashedly? I almost broke down this weekend realizing how much of me I've lost in all this. Not just how much of my life, but how much of my actual sense

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Brenda the Widow?

In my brain, widow, and Brenda are synonymous...to a fault. While I do think it's healthy for me to embrace my reality, somewhere along the way I have become so consumed with being a widow, that I've forgotten to just be Brenda. Someone outside my

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1 Year Blogiversary

It has been a full year since the idea of the Boitson's blog came about. It started for 2 days on blogspot, and then, as things became more serious in each passing hour, we quickly switched formats to this location: http://www.theboitsons.info . The idea wasn'

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Recognition

Who am I? I guess some of you know. Here's a bio of me "then", and a bio of me "now". I was born in Lancaster at St. Joseph Hospital (now Lanc. Regional) on May 20th, 1984 to my parents J. Donald & Lindsay

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CRAZY WIDOW

So I now have 2 articles published for my crazy widow column. I'd really love for you to read them, and forward them. The only way the column is going to "make it" is if it's readership increases, so PASS IT ON :) http://www.

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Novel Writing

I think I'm going to write the anti-novel. It's a love story, it's the story of our love through sickness, health, trail, and torment. It's the story of Kevin and I. You know I'm writing this....I knew I wanted

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To Here

....and here is the story of what has brought me here... Kevin and I met online just over 3 years ago. I got a mysterious email sent from my old high school personal website that only included a picture. That picture was of Kevin, and after a few emails back

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B.L. Boitson, Famous Author? Maybe Someday!

Good Morning everyone. It's amazing how my body just WAKES me up at 9:30 even if I didn't sleep well. Maybe it's time to buy some blinds for this room. We'll see... I just can't stop thinking about Kev,

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For those who don't know too much about Kevin and I's history, here's the recap! Kevin and I met online just over 3 years ago. I got a mysterious email sent from my old high school personal website that only included a picture. That