It all started during the blizzard that hit Knoxville in the middle of January. Ten inches of snow fell in the city, the most at…
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Friday, February 16, 2024, was a graduation day of sorts. My last appointment with my radiation oncologist, Dr. Joseph Meyer. There was no bell to…
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It’s a weird confluence of events. Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday fall on the same day this year. Not the first time these dates have…
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A new Netflix documentary about the creation of the 1985 song and video, “We Are the World,” which raised money for Ethiopia famine relief, brought…
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I miss farting. I Tweeted those words in the fall of 2013, just a few months after I was declared No Evidence of Disease following…
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I read an essay in the New York Times the other day that resonated deep within my soul. The essay, “Train Yourself to Always Show…
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The coming of the New Year means social media feeds are awash in posts about all folks have accomplished over the previous 365 days. There…
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The opening notes of Nat King Cole’s “The Christmas Song” make me unstuck in time. Like Billy Pilgrim in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five, I’m transported…
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I’ve always been drawn to aspects of the monastic life. Not the haircut, although mine is thinning and I’ve been getting it cut shorter in…
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My fingernails are blue Two of them, anyway. My left thumb and pinkie. Got color on them when the lovely Sarah and I got manicures…