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Just returned from an AMAZING training conference that may change the conversation about breast cancer! SO PUMPED!

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The New Kindle Fire: Do We Love It?

11/28/11 11:04am by Whymommy
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Kindle Fire

There's a new gadget out there, just in time for holiday shopping.  But is the Kindle Fire right for you?    Read more >

Are women with advanced breast cancer living longer?

5/5/11 12:08pm by Whymommy
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Susan Niebur (@WhyMommy) writes about surviving cancer, space science, and work/life balance at http://toddlerplanet.wordpress.com,  Read more >

Changing the conversation about cancer

5/3/11 8:36am by Whymommy
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After a weekend workshop with 800 energetic, amazing, committed women (including 8+ incredible bloggers and 30+ awesome metastatic women) fired up to fight for the END of breast cancer at the National Breast Cancer Coalition Advocacy Training Conference, I have new energy and new spirit and new FIGHT in me, both against this horrible disease in my own body and against its formation of tumors and spread in bodies (called metastasis) in genera  Read more >

A big day for a little spacecraft: @MESSENGER2011

3/18/11 8:31am by Whymommy
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It was St. Patrick’s Day, and the crowd of nearly 400 waited expectantly in the Kossiakoff auditorium at APL. Irish dancing music was piped into the auditorium as recorded interviews of Daniel O’Shaughnessy, Eric Finnegan, and Eric Calloway played on the giant screen, reviewing the six planetary gravity assists, the five deep space maneuvers, and the big idea to add solar sailing that arose as the spacecraft approached the first Mercury flyby.  Read more >

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Full Name
Susan Niebur (@WhyMommy)
Member Since
August 2006
About Me: 

I'm a scientist turned stay-at-home mom turned cancer survivor turned survivor survivor, who packs each day with fun with her children, learning opportunities, science work, advocacy, and snuggles.  I write about life, kids, cancer, career, and balancing it all at http://toddlerplanet.wordpress.com, http://motherswithcancer.wordpress.com, and http://womeninplanetaryscience.wordpress.com.  I believe in women supporting women -- together we can do anything!

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Washington, DC suburbs
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Washington D.C.,Virginia,Maryland

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motherhood,children,boys,nature,making it count,cancer,survivor,mastectomy,lymphedema,recovery,science,planetary science,space science,women,balance,reading,books

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health,walk,avon walk,equal pay for equal work,research,community, cancer

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