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  • Lent 2024, Day 39: I’m not a prop.

    This post did not cost $14 million to be published.

    March 29, 2024
  • Lent 2024, Day 37: Man gotta tell himself he understand.

    ‘Tiger gotta hunt,
    bird gotta fly,
    man got to sit
    and wonder
    why, why, why.

    Tiger gotta sleep,
    bird gotta land,
    man got to tell himself he understand.’

    Kurt Vonnegut

    March 27, 2024
  • Lent 2023, Day 8: We’re all in this together.

    But don’t worry, no celebrities will be singing “Imagine” in this post.

    March 2, 2023
  • Lent 2023, Day` 4: I almost died 9 years ago.

    So the doctor who couldn’t be bothered to help prevent my developing deadly blood clots died of… blood clots.

    February 25, 2023
  • Lent 2020, Day 24: This is a story about control.

    Me: Got my own mind
    I wanna make my own decisions.
    When it has to do with my life, my life
    I wanna be the one in control.

    Corona: Ha.

    March 24, 2020
  • Lent 2020, Day 11: Christ & Coronavirus.

    In the midst of life, and medical tests, and Taco Bell parking lots, and Route 22, and Coronavirus, there is Jesus, and “Him crucified.”

    March 9, 2020
  • Lent 2020, Day 9: Sorry! Fresh out of that Jesus of Nazareth Holy Land Healing Masque™.

    But this week, upon hearing John 9, I thought: “What happens if we can’t get any of that special Jesus of Nazareth Holy Land Healing Masque™? Can I, Handicapped Alisha, neé Big Nose, still display the works of God?”

    March 6, 2020
  • Lent 2020, Day 8: A Post of Praise.

    When I’ve been weak, she is strong.
    Helping me to carry on.
    I can count on,
    Kiki.

    March 5, 2020
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    Lent 2019: Uncommonly common.

    Still posing for selfies even with two needles in my chest for plasmapheresis… while wearing a jaunty beret. (taken March 2019)   Last Sunday, Z and I met up with my girl…

    March 28, 2019
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    The Problem is… you think you’re in control.

    Getting IVIG through a peripheral IV in my right hand in 2012. (photo, my own)   Just think of this post as a little corollary to Tuesday’s. I realized pretty much as…

    March 29, 2018
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