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  • Lent 2021, Day 29: This isn’t the Good News.

    Come along, Friends, as we take a trip back to 2005, to a time when “The Office” was brand new, cell phones weren’t smart, and I heard the worst sermon in my life.

    March 22, 2021
  • CoviDiaries: Advent & Love.

    “Love, actual love, is action. It’s a choice… it’s continual choosing. It doesn’t end after the picture is snapped and saved and even shared and, funnily, “loved” by others. It’s sweeping your beloved off her feet- and lifting her incoherent, babbling self off the floor.”

    December 20, 2020
  • CoviDiaries: Advent & Hope.

    As Advent began a week ago, I knew I was and am still lost in Lent. So I wait. My very soul waits. And I hope, hope that God will see us through.

    December 6, 2020
  • CoviDiaries: Easter and my Totem.

    It doesn’t quite feel like Easter, but I know it’s coming.

    April 21, 2020
  • Come Clean: Sometimes, I wish Black singers wouldn’t “sang”.

    Just sing the song, Mother Hattie Mae.

    April 16, 2020
  • Lent 2020, Day 24: This is a story about control.

    Me: Got my own mind
    I wanna make my own decisions.
    When it has to do with my life, my life
    I wanna be the one in control.

    Corona: Ha.

    March 24, 2020
  • Lent 2020, Days 14 & 15: When anxiety spreads faster than COVID-19.

    King Kong ain’t got nothin’ on anxiety.

    March 13, 2020
  • In praise of impermanence.

    2019, like my henna tat, is gone. But it’s all good.

    January 5, 2020
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    Lent 2019: Uncommonly common.

    Still posing for selfies even with two needles in my chest for plasmapheresis… while wearing a jaunty beret. (taken March 2019)   Last Sunday, Z and I met up with my girl…

    March 28, 2019
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    Lent 2019: Are you there God? It’s me, Alisha.

    Some of the contents of the inside and from the outside of the recently departed fridge.   I’ve had a few days lately that have made me wonder what is up with…

    March 19, 2019
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