Many of us work in jobs that are, at least remotely related to a field that we enjoy. Maybe you went to college in a scientific field or to be an engineer. You started out in that field and were successful and competent enough that you were promoted to management. You may not LOVE your …
Month: March 2021
Friends
After a long time of not really seeing anyone outside of immediate family, we went out to dinner and beers with a friend this evening. This is someone from the band, so prior to the pandemic, I would get a chance to visit with him weekly at practice, give or take. Now I think I've …
As the Pandemic Wanes…
We have been through a lot. Some of us have lost family members and friends to Covid. Some have lost family members and friends to other causes. We have lost jobs, careers, ways of life, routines, traditions, feelings of trust and safely, feelings that things are OK. Every single person will be forever changed by …
Fitting in is Overrated
Until only a few years ago, I had spent my entire life believing that there was something inherently WRONG with me. I didn't experience feelings about things like it appeared that other people were feeling. I couldn't do things right, or the way people expected me to do them. I didn't really feel like what …
Resilience – an Update
Every so often, I find something interesting in a "listicle," a published article consisting of a list of things. Personal faves are articles that have collected a bunch of random tweets from average, normal people on a specific topic. In this case, it was a series of different takes on what people were eating when …
Incentive to Work in America
In the arguments occurring in Congress over the last few weeks (and months and years, really), we often hear the conservatives arguing that people should definitely not be given "too generous " unemployment benefits because it reduces or removes the incentive to work. These are the same people who talk about the value of a …
History
What you do today is history tomorrow. We tend to talk about moments in history like they were all exceptional, created by exceptional people at exceptional moments. But history is being made constantly, as we speak, by all of us. The only thing that is exceptional about history is how we choose to remember it. …
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