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  • 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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    Throwback Thursday: Let it be.

    Note: This post first appeared at my old blog, Far Above Rubies, on October 4, 2010. ~Alisha       I’m sitting in the local diner writing this on my laptop, the…

    September 21, 2017
  • Throwback Thursday: Circles, Squares & Me.

    Note: This post first appeared on my old blog, Far AboveRubies, on September 21, 2012. ~Alisha   When I sat in that doctor’s office over a year and a half ago, being…

    August 3, 2017
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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…

    September 17, 2016

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