Hi, I'm Jochebed...
( & this is Pluto, like the planet. )
This site is my attempt to keep writing my life story.
It starts with a dream, but so far, it ends with a van:
my escape from homelessness before I bought a Detroit Land Bank house to build into a home for myself & others...
until my neighbors ganged up to successfully terrorize me out of it.
Now my true best hope is that I survive Long COVID
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and all that comes with it long enough to find a place to rest.
sanitarium (n): establishment for the medical treatment of people who are convalescing or have a chronic illness.
 Galmi Hospital and adjoining compound for missionary doctors where I was raised in the Niger Republic. |  Reading inside the Galmi Compound Convalescence Center, my favorite childhood pastime besides playing outside. |  The sanitarium, Miango Rest Home, where my family used to vacation in Nigeria. |
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 My house in the first update to the Detroit Land Bank; Plexiglas for most windows, solar panels, missing fence and all. |  Inside the Miango lounge; the playroom and dining hall where breakfast and dinner were served growing up is just out of sight on the right. |  The salvaged tub I'd like to purchase for my bathroom. |
 The closet full of stranger things and mysteries - like the 1990, 11th grade art show portfolio of a man that supposedly still lives next door - but no meter...yet. |  The old newspaper I found lying undisturbed after 15 years on the shelf in my would-be living room, "Appointment with a crisis: 6000 fewer physicians by 2020. Michigan faces doctor shortage." |  My last trip to the hospital. |
 Pluto mid exit, supplies and the stairs I can no longer safely climb to go home. |  Just a shot I love of the exact bathroom sink cabinet I was looking for at the Tireman Flea Market last December. |  A room that will hopefully house someone else, if I can manage to make it upstairs first. |