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Feb 26, 2019
1 min

Craving Pizza

A series of events this month, including surgery for a bowel blockage and another hospital stay a week later, revealing that my body is...

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Ali

Jan 26, 2019
4 min

Shalom

When George and I were in Marblehead, Massachusetts, getting a second opinion on my diagnosis, we walked along a beach strewn with black...

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Ali

Dec 7, 2018
2 min

Next step begins

Thanks for your patience as many of you have been hoping for updates. Here's the scoop: After surgery, things were progressing very well....

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Ali

Nov 8, 2018
1 min

Post Surgery

Thankyou to all of you who have been patiently waiting for news. I am now home after what the surgeon felt was a very successful...

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Wakil Kurt Simpson

Nov 7, 2018
1 min

Updates ...

For those of us who aren't part of the local community at St. George I wonder if someone might share what they know concerning Ali...

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Michele McMahon

Nov 5, 2018
1 min

No catchy title...

I have a deep, thoughtful love for you, I'm thinking of you just about every time my thoughts are not turned toward work, sometimes I...

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Ali

Oct 27, 2018
1 min

Surgery

Surgery will be early tuesday morning at Anschutz Medical Campus. George and the girls will be with me. I chose this photo for this...

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Ali

Oct 22, 2018
2 min

Cornfields

We're back in Colorado! Address for mail is C/O Connie Shaw 3505 23rd street, Boulder, 80304. It feels good to be back in our home state,...

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Ali

Oct 14, 2018
1 min

Heading West

Hitting the road tomorrow to head back to Boulder. The Oncologist we wanted will see us on the 24th, perhaps sooner if something opens...

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Ali

Oct 9, 2018
2 min

Which Door?

So many of you have reached out, asking details, where to send things, what my plans are.... We are finalizing decisions about where to...

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Ali

Oct 4, 2018
2 min

Pausing at the ocean

My friend Amy's brother and his wife live in Massachusetts. We are staying in their downstairs apartment by the ocean, while we have...

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rparker

Oct 1, 2018
1 min

Dear Ali...

Thank you for reaching out to us as you through this journey. I'm thinking about you, hoping, and praying… Rob

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Linda Williams

Sep 30, 2018
1 min

Thank you

Ali, I appreciate so much your sharing your journey with us. I believe this is our journey as well and you are the one doing the heavy...

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Ali

Sep 29, 2018
2 min

Hitting the Road

After more than a week of no communication, I'm ready to say a few things. Today George and I leave Florida and begin a three day road...

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Ali

Sep 21, 2018
3 min

Life Changes

I'm grateful for so much tangible love and support flowing in from each of you. Makes me smile often. At the end of my second week here,...

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Ali

Sep 18, 2018
2 min

Hope?

Today is the first day I feel like I woke up in my body. From the moment this diagnosis came, I have felt terrified of my body, because...

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Ali

Sep 16, 2018
2 min

Bring Your Live Heart

Amy brought this Rumi poem to my attention this week: Bring a hundred sacks of gold and God will say, "Bring the heart." And if you bring...

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Ali

Jun 1, 2018
2 min

Verbing it

Walking up the mountain path on the west side of town, I had been listening comfortably to words that storied my friends' lives;...

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