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Making Me Great Again

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  • Towards “RETURN TO WORK” goal : there have been two moments of REVELATION in my recent journey with GBM (**) in 2023. Oddly, the first was not January 5 : My first brain seizure day, nor January 11 : the brain surgery.No, the first was while SCHEDULING the radiation + chemotherapy treatments on 2/10/23… I

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  • FaceBook Post from Feb 28, 2023 @ 7a Pacfic As month 2 with GBM (my brain cancer) winds down, it is evident my body has recovered from the corticosteroid I was taking… yesterday (including last night) I was asleep about 65% of the day! it’s bittersweet, though, since the 5-hour nights also came with anti-inflammatory

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  • And here is the edit: Monday, September 08, 2008   I faithfully avoided women for many years after my first divorce. Entanglements, commitments, engagements anything cementing me to a single person was taboo and forbidden. <SIDENOTE: Argh. This is a lot harder than putting down the original. Maybe I wasn’t meant to be an EDITOR! I’m going to

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  • PRACTICE WITH EDITING. Since the main goal of my 100 day writing challenge is to improve my writing skills, I’m going to work on updating an older piece of writing that I just whipped off backed when… This is the BEFORE version . . . Monday, September 08, 2008   <The Set Up> I’d thought

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  • Day 2 of 100

    Making a promise to myself is like a set-up for failure. Can I really do it? 100 days of writing seems like such a small thing if there’s only three lines involved… maybe five minutes of investment. That’s no big deal, huh? I could even do it from my phone, on a bus, in a

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  • Emergence

    <PREAMBLE> Compelled by the urgency of my impending end, I write. Drawn by forces incomprehensible, I begin. Following my muse, my music and my amusement, I start. The blackness clears from my darkened sight and I behold the beacon – the shining light from a woman whose joy manifests into the real world. The beckoning is

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  • Hello world!

    Into the information age to modernize my pencil and paper. . .

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