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In the fear of God and commentors I will tread where angels dare not…risking offending every single reader of my blog!! But I will choose words carefully, and hopefully, ...
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Well, who says blogging doesn’t pay. Luxury Magazine said they are interested in having a several parts of this blog series on my cancer journey. And many of your ...
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Wow, I am feeling the effects of hypo-tiredness, and it IS very strange. Not the bone-weariness of a full day of deadlines, running around and lack of sleep, but ...
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Due to summer travels and my own cancer battles, I have neglected little Jordanian Joseph’s ongoing fight against leukemia, and his father’s now-confirmed Lou Gehrig’s disease. Since I posted ...
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Umm Zaid had a thought provoking comment on my Daughter Slaughter post, one that parallels something I wrestled with as I tried to fall asleep last night.
Umm Zaid ...
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It is a sad day. Today, we sold our Grande Dame, our twenty-something year old Little French Pony station wagon.
She served us well for eleven years of our ...
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Commenter Farrah left this community service information:
The Jordan Breast Cancer Program (JBCP) is launching a massive nation-wide campaign this October (the official launch is on October 8th). Throughout ...
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A friend told me that ‘honor killing’ dishonored her extended family in Salt recently. It dishonored me too, as this family is ‘Christian’. Jesus had a specific word to ...
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I think I have read everything the internet has to offer about the radiated iodine I will be ingesting in a few weeks. I was thoroughly confused at one ...
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Not for poor hubby, he spent the Eid doing research and writing for a paper for his current course. He is SO darn diligent, he never looks for distractions ...
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HHmmm, am I only only who whose radar this film flew under? Gaza Girl sent me these links:
[www.philistinefilms.org]
Hear Anne Marie Jacir, the director, talk about her ...
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It’s October, Breast Cancer Awareness month. Even in Jordan, it has gotten a little pink as I saw a street advert reminding women to get the ‘big squeeze’ that ...
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Mabruuk, mabruuk, mabruuk!!!
I realized that I hadn’t done my Eid post when last year’s Eid wish had been my most visited post for the last couple days, and ...
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“British church leaders are becoming so concerned about the temptations of the blogosphere that they have drawn up a list of “Ten Blogging Commandments.” Based on the original 10 ...
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Abu and Um Kounouz decided Um K was doing WAY too much by way of reminding children to do their chores. They also decided those treasures could do way ...
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I have a note in the margin of my Bible that says: “The greatest test will lie in the answer of your prayer”. Sometimes, handling the positive answer to ...
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Because the bad news for female orphans in Jordan was very bad indeed.
This article from Friday’s Jordan Times encouraged me greatly. ...
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Yum, I had to wait to write about this with a good conscience until after iftar
ESPECIALLY SINCE CERTAIN PEOPLE MIGHT SAY I AM BEING MEAN AGAIN. MEAN. ME, ...
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Yahoo! I got my cytology report yesterday from the esteemed Dr. Abdulla, and the cancer is well differentiated, LOCALIZED and has NOT spread to lymph nodes or beyond! ALL ...
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Two things I couldn’t live without now on this cancer journey: a BFF who is a doctor, and the internet.
When things happen that I just don’t get, I ...
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You Jordanians living elsewhere, yesterday was that magical day when the first clouds flew by our azure skies. I was thinking of several of you, as you know how ...
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In case you are tired of hearing about honor killings and under-age marriages in the Middle East, I have a diversion for you.
One of the books I read ...
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Heh-heh, it worked!!! I finally got my CFO/Rancher Sister to read my blog!!! My wunnerful sis-in-law Jessica The Germophobe started this summer after our adventure The Born Again and ...
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Being welcomed home from surgery!
First came the happy reunion with the kounouz, three of whom presented handmade cards of love. Spikekid, tho, presented a report card that is ...
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Forty-eight hours ago I was in the operating room, chatting with the anesthesiologist who was trying to find a vein. Sigh. Veins are hard to find on white pale ...
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The time of the modified neck dissection draweth nigh. I’m looking for advice on making my hospital stay pleasant, although I have plenty of experience after four c-sections, two ...
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There was discussion this summer that blogging had become boring. I think it has picked up, what do you think?
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I spent part of the morning yesterday at the US Embassy, getting the gig on absentee voter protocol.
It was good to meet some employees at the American Citizens ...
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When hubby and I were newly married, last century, we were working in a suburb of Chicago new to both of us. We found a church we both liked ...
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One of the questions friends ask in a lower tone of voice is: “So how are the kids handling it?”. The answer represents another great mercy of God upon ...
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I never imagined that the primary core-feeling in my soul during my cancer journey would be joy. More than peace, but deeply rooted, unshakable joy. Even the song I ...
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QUICK!!! There have recently been so many ridiculous fatwas and edicts emitted from the mouths of Saudi Imams and judges recently I am embarrassed for Muslim friends. These men ...
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(Ok, being an old blonde with cancer, I missed I was supposed to post this. Duh. So, drumroll…..)
Give it up, bloggers. I don’t want to see you just ...
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Did you know that September is Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month? I didn’t either, until I had it With thanks to ThyCa: The Thyroid Cancer Survivor’s Association, I ...
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Where was I August 1st? Risking skin cancer at Newport Beach California, and not reading blogs much. I missed an important post!
WELL, roaming around (since i don’t do ...
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My dad, one of the original subscribers to “Mother Jones” magazine, used to say the next world war would be fought over water, in the Middle East. He said ...
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Heh-heh, LOL. I always love the honor of bring picked up by Amira Hussaini at Global Voices Online.
But I’m giggling because I was read on the ...
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I remember that day like it was yesterday, all of it. The day started with very sad news, as a woman from our church had died in a bus ...
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Khalaf and Batir, two of the rare beacons of hard-hitting political analysis in blogging, have decided it is ...
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Between MommaBean’s post and todays JT article, I am emboldened to speak out. Before you skip it as just another ...
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I’m discovering which friends make good ‘cancer friends’. I myself, have never been a good ‘cancer friend’, as I had fallen into several patterns that I see now in ...
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…cross cancer and PMS?
A tear-stained pillow.
Last night I had my first good cry over this whole thing. It was cleansing and healing, and in it I found ...
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Well, waiting takes on a new dimension when cancer is a part of life. I had hoped by now to be recovering from surgery and live-blogging from the hospital ...
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Another blogger wrote recently about the amazing increase in prices, and it is time to add my hubby’s two piasters. Someone somewhere hasn’t got their statistics quite right on ...
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One of my first thoughts when my US doctor told me I had cancer was: “Lord, help me to glorify You in this disease. I am afraid of dishonoring ...
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Some time ago, we had a young woman live with us who had spent more than half of her 20s in prison for getting pregnant out of wedlock. We ...
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Bravo 3alayk, Mayor Ma’ani!!
I have always been a fan of Amman’s mayor, and now I get a chance to publicly applaud him for answering a specific prayer of ...
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For those of you my readers who haven’t yet read MommaBean’s blog “A Tale of Three Beans“, you are missing a treat. In addition to catching ...
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Time to tell cancer to shove off the blog for a bit while I return to my blogging roots: COOKIES!
Tiffany from Ohma’s Cookies linked ...
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Not because of the weather.
Not because I am angry.
Not because I’m looking particularly good today.
I’m ‘hot’ because I swallowed a capsule radioactive iodine I-131 this morning, ...
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…to faithful Muslims near and far. Since the beginning of the summer I have been cringing for you all as you will be fasting during hot, long days. Hate ...
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Woo-hoo, this is indeed a ride!! I’ve been hanging on tight, as the last couple days it felt like a mobius flip.
Did you know I take your advice ...
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Well, I told myself I wouldn’t do it, and I did. I said to self “Do not use this disease to gain favor or get special treatment”. I did ...
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Both me and my off-line self have been accused of extremism in being “cup half-full people”.
Um Omar, in her last comment, asked for more good news as it ...
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While it threw me for a loop yesterday, this roller-coaster ride seems a straight-away today. Well, rather than King Hussein Cancer Center, I ended up next door at the ...
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Hhhhmmm…so what gave me the impression I would be able to come home, call my US doctor’s colleague, and get surgery scheduled before Ramadan? I wasn’t really planning on ...
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I just love O’Hare Airport in Chicago, and I love flying Lufthansa. I love our friends the Millers, who brought Dairy Queen Dilly Bars as a last good-bye treat ...
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Thanks, dear readers, for hanging in there with my random blog of treasures. Without a lot of planning on my part, this 500th post coincides the roll-over into six ...
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I am happy to report that all our bags are packed and UNDER weight! Garage sale-ing absolutely stank this summer, and I did not shop-til-I-drop, so we are making ...
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Commenter Lucia and I met at another blog and connected on several levels, one of those jewels of the internet. She sent me a snail-mail letter a few weeks ...
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There are many holes in my understanding of the Arab world, and it is the passing of men like Mahmoud Darwish that reveal them. As I have watched the ...
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After friends getting all over me to get a second opinion over a health issue I have, I finally found a doc our insurance covered and went in. Not ...
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I have NO business blogging OR reading Breaking Dawn. I have 800 square feet covered with stuff to pack into twelve 50lb duffle bags to return to our beloved ...
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I cannot, cannot, cannot believe it. A brand new Toshiba laptop arrived by UPS today. An answer to my prayers. I didn’t even ‘whine-pray’ with hubby about it, or ...
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I’ve enjoyed what I have learned hearing from folks on the previous post and in talking to friends recently. The subject of home schooling ignites passions pro and con. ...
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One really fun part of this trip was seeing Lil Kinz connect with her big-girl cousin Rosie. Rosie is the girl-version of big-cousin Josh: she is tough as nails ...
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Left California a day ago, already dreaming about going back. Better get this series done before I forget all the cool stuff that happened.
It seems there are Great ...
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Bam Bam has asked me what I thought about the homeschooling movement. As with many issues, most of what I have heard from Jordanians is the concern expressed in ...
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What a glory this California vacation has been. I am full and ready to come back to Jordan.
The sound of crashing waves has centered my equilibrium of soul. ...
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How many posts have you all mentally written that you will never, under NO circumstances press ‘publish’ on…but are dying to? I’ve got one banging around inside my head ...
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