I am starting to see some patterns in some of the "normal" white people I follow on Twitter and elsewhere. The narrative goes something like 'Has anyone else started to feel a little guilty about XYZ?' These statements reflect recent revelations about race, gender/pay inequities, or even autism. Like it NEVER occurred to these people …
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Mistakes Were Made
Perfection is short lived, but sadly, it is something I have spent much of my life chasing. Nearly immediately upon my ASD diagnosis, I was finally able to at least put my perfectionist tendencies in perspective and move on, accepting myself, flaws and all. So this is where I made my first blog fubar: accidentally …
Tips and Tricks for Maintaining your Mental Health Through the Pandemic
You are ultimately responsible for your own mental state during the pandemic and you have more control over your mental state than you think. We are all now restricted in ways we did not anticipate. Understanding and REALLY internalizing the fact that in the before-pandemic times, your beliefs about how much control you had over …
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Late Summer = Spider Season
One of my other "super-powers" that I've had since childhood is a powerful attractiveness to any and all biting insects and arachnids. We lived in Minnesota for the first several years of my life and my mother said she used to have to drag me inside in the summers because the enormous horse flies were …
Wanted: Reader Input
When I started this blog in March of this year, I had many ideas about topics I could speak on and connections I could make between different abstract concepts. My primary goal was to give me something to tend to during the lockdown period, to keep my mind off how bad I knew things would …
Contraction
I feel my soul contracting in parallel with the society and the economy. It is a constant uneasy feeling, as though it is getting harder to move, harder to live fully, harder to feel deeply. So many people, fellow human beings, are finding it hard to breathe. COVID and police violence are forcing the breath …
Stop half-assing life
This title is directed at myself as much as anyone else. But really, everyone, let's collectively STOP. There are way too many situations where we are just all phoning it in and that has to end at some point. Show up, for real. Be real. Take a stand. Believe in something. Make noise. Raise a …
Wearing a mask is a moral imperative
It has been nearly 4 months since most of us started to hear about and understand the global pandemic that is COVID-19. I marked the date in my city as 3/11, when the NBA very abruptly began cancelling games and large events, concerts and the like started disappearing off calendars. If I had known then …
Searching for Inspiration
I have been a bit behind in my posting, dear readers. Since I started this blog in April, I've come close to posting at least once, sometimes twice, a week on Tuesdays and/or Fridays. This is more consistency than I've had with most things over the past several years. Now I know more than a …
Random thoughts
Work has been so busy this week that I have almost forgotten about the pandemic and the racial unrest in our country. Except that I still had to get to the grocery store this week and was shopping for my parents and my sister-in-law, and that is not "normal." Given the complexity of just getting …
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