Lux et umbra vicissum…

All of us have ups and downs, right?  We have our exciting moments and our depressing moments and everything in between.  In a sense, we’re all on an emotional roller coaster, it’s just some people have more of the kiddy version (lucky ducks!) while others have the death defying pee-your-pants kind.  (And sometimes we jump […]

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Who among us has not looked up symptoms or information about a diagnosis on the internet?  Let’s be honest: when it comes to what’s going on inside our bodies, we feel like we have a right to as much information as we can get.  The difficult part is sorting through that information in a meaningful, non-paranoid […]

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Have you ever wondered why an illness that isn’t inborn can be so hard to kill?  If you think about it, most sicknesses that you pick up along the road of life are usually fought off by our own immune systems, sometimes with the help of drugs like antibiotics.  There are a few obvious exceptions, […]

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Short version: my cancer is back, but in my eye Back in December, I got a headache that lasted for the whole month, and with it there was a disturbance in the vision of my left eye.  I thought it was an ocular migraine because I’ve had them before, so I just waited for it […]

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It’s been a while, but in celebration of the completion of my first trilogy, I’m reopening my blog. 🙂 The search for an agent is definitely stressful. Thing is, even if I never get a word published, I’ll still be writing. That should mean it doesn’t matter so much if I find an agent or […]

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