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Lent- Day 3: Buy truth, don’t sell it.
(Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in “I Love Lucy”, via Google Images) I just finished the Audible version of “Lucy and Desi: The Legendary Love Story of Television’s Most Famous Couple”…
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Lent- Day 2: More Glorious.
(Google CC Image: link) I was feeling pretty low on the general state of humanity yesterday, and rightfully so. Today’s Scripture reading of Romans 8:22 shows just how deep our stinkiness…
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Until you return to the ground.
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your fooduntil you return to the ground, since from it you were taken;for dust you are and to dust you will return.” -Genesis 3:19 Ash…
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What to expect when you’re expecting…
September 2016, and I have (some) hair. … to get better, but haven’t. Yet. It’s been four months since I had the Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) at Northwestern in…
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Baby, I’m just soggy from the chemo.
On the April 12th, I underwent the first round of chemotherapy for the stem cell transplant at Northwestern. I was given a rather large, private room, complete with a spectacular…
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Not even Marilyn Monroe.
A young Norma Jean Baker in the early 1940s. Many a Penny Pentecostal would still be rocking this same suit style well into the Carter Administration. (Source) My latest Audible book streaming…
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I am not my hair.
“Breast cancer and chemotherapy Took away her crownin’ glory She promised God if she was to survive She would enjoy every day of her life, oh On national television Her…
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I don’t like Thanksgiving.
Not Thanksgiving, probably Easter 1985, from left to right: (a grumpy me), Bever-leigh, Stevie, Mom holding a carrier with a kicking-baby Jos, and a very goofy Joe. At least not…
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Forever 28. Three years old.
Friday marked the third anniversary of my sister Joscelyne’s death. Around 8AM, I pulled the black and white photo of her, ensconced in a shiny, mirrored frame, off the…
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The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night.
Z and one of the butterflies. Before seven this morning, I sat down on my couch, flipped open my laptop and read. I heard the tiny fluttering wings of…
