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And then I will confess

February 9, 2011

And then I will confess everything with a pencil in my hand and a scrap of cheap paper on the table in front of me. This is how you do it, the books tell me. Beg all the words out onto a page. The cheap paper has thin blue lines on it to show me … Continue reading And then I will confess

Live your life

February 9, 2011

When you finish your cancer treatment, after the last radiation and the last chemotherapy and the surgery, they tell you to go and live your life. They will use those very words, most likely: “Go and live your life.” A benediction. An encouragement. A permission. This is as if your life was like a book … Continue reading Live your life