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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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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…
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Some Sunday Stuff: May 3rd.
A rose in the vase at my table in a Cuban restaurant I visited on Wednesday. What a week. The riots in Baltimore brought out the media like…
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Help Momma K Take a Vacay!
From the GoFundMe page: My stepmother, Kathy Parchia Flemming, was by my father’s side as he took his last breath on March 21st. It had been ten months and…
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Larry’s Daughter.
About twenty minutes after leaving the graveyard where we laid my father to rest, I stood in line at the nearby Starbucks. It’s “my” Starbucks, the one I spent hours…
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Creatives Space: Tray Chaney
It is in no way hyperbole to call me a superfan of “The Wire”. I’ve watched all sixty episodes twice. I’ve sat and had long discussions with friends and associates…
