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Told Ya So – About My Truest Love
photo credit: Steve Beger Photography (Beger.com Productions) It’s funny how blind we can be to what is right for us if we are inexperienced with love, jaded, or held back by the amount that we can...
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My Last Near Death Experience and Why I Write
photo credit: Harlequin_colorsIt was at the start of the ill times I had in ’07. The cause was a complication of my condition that I won’t bore you with. The result was that I was having trouble...
View ArticleI Know I Need to Update the Sidebar
Just been a little pre-occupied with a re-launch. But I’ll probably have new links up before the week is out. Thanks for being patient. Feel free to remind me if you’re not on the sidebar in this thread.
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the Soul and Memory Rendering
Tinu in Soul and Memory painting - Click for larger image. That is the picture in question from the last post. I wrote three poems about this, because I was amazed that someone could create a likeness...
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My Obama Blog
Barack Obama IS a Super Hero. But only to the extent that we do our part, too. I like to start a zillion things to study topics like how to make something go viral. And I thought you might want to take...
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[updated pictures] Actually I’m almost “Me” Again, Now
(Click on any image for a larger image and description.) When you have severe weight fluctuations due to an on-going illness, it’s hard to see yourself for the way you truly look. One day you look in...
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home/sick
Lagos, Ikoyi Bay I want to go home. Back to the Yoruba land where my family is from, where my ancestors are from. Back to where my pain is from. Back to where my so-called exotic roots were born....
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I Know What I’m Afraid Of
Right here, now today, I know it. I’m gonna tell you in a minute. Let me tell you the back story first. I stumbled upon how I could make $24,000 in about two days. I thought it was the secret to...
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I Know What I am Afraid Of | Part Two
I am so good at being in love that I’m afraid of being in love. Because I had this idea in my head that love ends. For the longest time, I built my business as a distraction from heartache. Somehow it...
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[updated pictures] I’m Me Again
(Click on any image for a larger image and further description.) I’m sure I’ve mentioned *cough!*whined!*cough* about the issues I’d been having with my self image, and I tell you, several things have...
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Work, Life, Health
The reasons I’ve been away are good ones for a change. Been kind of a busy bee. photo credit: Tigerlily 09 But I think I need to come here a bit more often and just… be able to share my experiences. So...
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Exhilaration and Checkpoints
Apparently I write more when things are amiss. Right now, things are incredibly well aligned, and even though a minor crisis came, it had now been averted. Today, I wanted to record two things. One is...
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Help I’m an #INFJ
Like so few before me, I’ve recently discovered that my Myers-Briggs personality type is INFJ. My Myers-Briggs personality type is INFJ, not INTJ as I originally believed. (There’s a chance that this...
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Kathy, Hessie, Ify & My Conspiracy Theory
So I have these three friends. Two of them know each other… and I’m starting to think they’re all three in cahoots. via GIPHY (I CAN’T. WE ARE NOT DISCUSSING IT TODAY. Anyway…) The reason for all these...
View ArticleA Day In the Life – What Happens After a Chemotherapy Cycle Part One
A Day in the life of a CLL cancer patient Hi I’m Tinu, as you may know, my name means love. I believe love is about the actions you take, as much as it is about expressing your love verbally to another...
View ArticleRecovering from Chemo Is Even MORE Awesome at night – Part Two
So that was a day in the life of the chemo recovery part of the cycle. Cancer affects your night life too. This Was Your Nightlife Before Chemo. No seriously, I used to live in Vegas. If you are bored...
View ArticleMore about the chemo experience – now with resources! #Lymphoma #cll
So far I’ve written about the days when there are a lot of symptoms and things going haywire in your body. But about a third of the days of the cycle – I’d say mostly in the last two weeks before...
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Harder than usual today
That’s a picture of Sam Cooke. For some reason, Chain Gang has been on my mind today. Every day having cancer has been harder than my old life. It seems so far away now. Today was an especially hard...
View ArticleA big bad day in the cancerhood
“Take this referral. Go see your oncologist, get the x-rays and come back.” In one visit, my doctor had solved a problem my oncologist was still puzzling over. I’ve had an exhausting, productive cough...
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IDGAF – the irony of cancer revealing your joy
There’s something that happens around the time you turn 40, particularly as a woman. Either you become a squealing baby who panics about not being young anymore and launch into a midlife crisis? Or you...
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