Unfortunately, it appears that things have taken a turn for the worst right now with my health. I planned to finish my last semester of law school in December, but things spiralled out of control very suddenly and I had to rush home to be taken care of by my family. I am too weak [...]

posted by Admin
Tags: Inspiration, Love, The Fight
Filed under: Advocacy, Reflections, The Good Fight

For nearly 8 years now I’ve lived between two worlds. I’ve gone to school in one city for 8 months and then spend my summers at home. Since I started law school I’ve also tended to travel home more to visit for doctor’s appointments and scans due to the nature of my cancer progressing. Although [...]

posted by Carrie Ng Grace
Tags: home, school
Filed under: Reflections

A few months back, I wrote a post entitled “We Must Change” (originally posted May 10, 2011) about the importance of changing our lifestyles and the way we run this world … Since it got lost in the website redux, I will re-post this post. I am raising the issue again because a “legitimate research” [...]

posted by Carrie Ng Grace
Tags: chemotherapy, cure, food, lifestyle
Filed under: Education/Statistics, Reflections, The Good Fight

This summer has been incredible. After the rough transition through spring in April-May when I rushed home from school and dropped everything, I have had the best summer probably since childhood when I used to hang out with my grampa everyday – going shopping, lunches at Swiss Chalet (with shirley temples, ice cream, and coffee), [...]

posted by Carrie Ng Grace
Tags: balance, end of summer, excitement, law school
Filed under: Reflections, The Good Fight

The passing of Jack Layton came as a shock to me earlier this week. It was one of those moments where I will always remember where I was and exactly what I was doing when I received the news (like when Lady Di passed away, or when the twin towers fell on September 11). This [...]

posted by Carrie Ng Grace
Tags: Hope, Jack Layton, Legacy, lessons learned, Politics
Filed under: Reflections, The Good Fight

Recently, a close family friend went a way to a cottage with our other family friend in common. Apparently my friend with the cottage had wanted to invite me too but was afraid to ask because she assumed I would be feeling too unwell from the treatments to endure the three hour drive to the [...]

posted by Carrie Ng Grace
Tags: friendship, honesty
Filed under: Reflections

So after the 18 articling applications I threw together in a panic in the midst of studying for my exams back in July, I only landed one interview. It was kind of a blow to my ego – I had a chart all drawn out to schedule interviews over three days, but didn’t have anything [...]

posted by Carrie Ng Grace
Tags: failure, job search, lessons learned
Filed under: Reflections