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  • Lent 2023, Day 11: Ascent. Requiescat in Pace.

    “It was surreal, writing an obituary, for my mom, who died of cancer, in a room full of patients, fighting cancer.”

  • The Making of the Man.

    JoJo,
    I love you. You make me proud to be Player 2.
    ~LiLi

  • Not goodbye.

    It’s not goodbye. It’s just like she always use to say to us kids before we’d leave for school: “See you later, alligator. After while, crocodile.” And give Joscelyne so many kisses for me.

  • Some Sunday Stuff: Third Week of Advent, 2021.

    I’m full of sorrow because I know I’m losing my mom. Yet, I will continue to choose joy; not fake toxic positivity that denies the reality of the situation or the depth of my heartbreak. No, I’m choosing joy through hope, joy in “faith through Jesus’ love”.

  • The Decade of Wistful Thinking.

    “K, upon hearing that she had visited with us all in those final weeks, supposed her spirit was leading her to say goodbye, to give some closure. I held in my heart that suggestion, even as I knew I’d only get closure at my own death. My very act of living is a testimony of her death.”