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Free At Last !

August 6, 2015 TODAY IS THE DAY I AM FINALLY SET FREE! Many of you may have seen my dad’s preemptive “proud papa post” on Facebook announcing that yesterday (Wednesday) was my scheduled liberation day. But unfortunately, as my family and I have learned these past few years, there are plenty of unexpected surprises when […]

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Holding On, Reaching Out

July 21, 2015 Greetings from my MSK penitentiary! I’m deeply sorry I haven’t written in so long. I feel like a tragic version of “Where’s Waldo” in a straight-jacket amongst a sea of stethoscopes, pills, blood pressure cuffs, nurses in obnoxiously colored scrubs, and doctors dressed appropriately as clowns. Only within the last week or […]

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Goodbye for now 

I asked my mom and dad to make sure that no matter what, no matter how I felt and no matter whether I could type this out or not, to make me publish this blog entry.  My father can say for me that since my passing was not predicted, I didn’t know that this would […]

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Me, My Selfie, and I

If a tree falls in the forest and no one took a picture of it, did it really fall?  If you go to a party, and you don’t Snapchat it, did the party even happen?  If I have a self, but not a “selfie”, do I really have a self?  Some experts who study teen […]

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“Ranting and Raving: The Unedited, Uninhibited, and Unapologetic.”

Subject: Nursing Assistants “Can’t live with ‘em; can’t live without ‘em.’” Yes, I realize that this expression comes at the end of a Britney Spears song in which she is actually describing bad “boys” and breakin’ it down hard on the dance floor, but it’s also a really good way to describe the way I […]

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Blood, Sweat, and Tears

Woohoo!, the time has come for my second blog post! Happy belated New Year to everyone who is taking the time to “read me.” I’m sorry it’s been so long since I last posted, but the last month has been hellish for me to say the least, and every time I set designated time aside to […]

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Let’s Take it from the Top

I loathe journaling…there, I’ve said it. It feels surprisingly good to get that off my chest. I’ve always loathed journaling, and journals themselves for that matter. They’re always the gift you get from your grandma or your mom’s good friend from high school who happened to be in Barnes and Nobel around the time of […]

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