Early Days

I filed on September 8, just less than a year before the primary election on September 5, 2006. Oddly, I'm already quite busy. I go to Bar Association meetings and talk to people, I go to Civic Club meetings and talk about Consumer Law and RICO, and I talk to other people who have run local campaigns and get their advice. I'm also working, and singing in church, doing Florida Bar committee work, doing charity work, volunteering at Kate Sullivan, and spending time with my husband and children.

Things could have been quite different for me this year. If I had been diagnosed this year with a serious form of breast cancer, instead of one that is essentially somulent or pre-invasive, I could have been journeying through chemotherapy and radiation instead of walking down the campaign trail. But receiving a wake up call, by any means, helps to focus on what you really want, instead of just doing what you always do.

Like the chemotherapy ads say, "I'm ready." I'm ready to work on this campaign, ready to become a judge, ready to serve the community in yet another way. I'm ready.