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Tag Archives: fate
LUSH LIFE
The rain won’t stop. The spring and early summer have been a seemingly endless stretch of rain-soaked days. The world has turned relentlessly green. I’ve heard weather-related griping about commuting into the city on rainy morning after rainy morning; wet … Continue reading
Posted in gardening, Life After Cancer, Philadelphia
Tagged color, coreopsis, fate, gardens, irises, life, Orianna Street, rain, sedum
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lucky me?
Many weeks ago, as I walked the neighborhood with my new baby snuggled in his Moby wrap, a woman coming out of her car stopped us with a smile. She peered in at Earl’s tiny face. “What a beautiful baby,” … Continue reading
Posted in adoption, fellow fighters, Life After Cancer
Tagged blind faith, fate, fortune, luck, Sarah Sadtler Feather
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echo chamber
Words have never come with greater difficulty than they have in the weeks following the death of a fellow young adult cancer warrior with whom I shared an essential but hard to define connection. I didn’t know her well, but … Continue reading
Posted in Death, fellow fighters, Life After Cancer, running
Tagged abyss, chemo, Chris Ward Blumer, Christmas, Death, demons, fate, fellow warriors, hangover, indignities, New Year's Eve, post traumatic stress, razor's edge, short ribs, slow cooker, trauma
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mister mean genes (or, expect the unexpected)
Today I have had the surprising experience of someone else’s good news making me feel like shit. Are we in middle school again? I recall, quite starkly, a “profound thought” from my high school notes of the same name, which … Continue reading
Posted in cancer, Life After Cancer, Work
Tagged biking, breast cancer, bungling criminals, cancer family, fate, genetic mutation, guilt, high school, jealousy, middle school, Moab, recurrence, running, unspoken truth
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the wanting comes in waves
In a post a few weeks back, I was thinking about the injustice of a world in which people who are unable or unwilling to raise children continue to produce babies at an often-alarming rate, while people like me get totally fucked out … Continue reading
Posted in cancer, Family, Life After Cancer, Work
Tagged adoption, baby shower, balancing act, cancer, children, communication, evil, fate, friends, injustice, irony, North Philly, Peru, rage
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