First, This has nothing to do with my normal fare of Logistics related blog posts. It's an article I write to illustrate a profile in courage. I am honored to be related to the subject of the story.

My cousin is a TV news anchor in San Antonio, Texas. KSAT's Leslie Mouton is my mothers niece. Beautiful, intelligent, funny and talented. The person I see on TV doesn't seem like the down-to-earth kid I grew up with. The first time I saw her on TV, I didn't recognize her. That was years ago now.

She contracted breast cancer a few years ago. Rather than hide it, Leslie took it and made it a public thing. She talked about her illness on-line, on the news, and even did the News Bald...to show that a woman can be in recovery from cancer and still perform in that most plastic of worlds...Television.

That effort, and her other local work with cancer charities etc., landed Leslie on the Oprah Winfrey show. She was highlighted as a hero by Oprah for being so br