Starting tomorrow morning, after 16 months, my husband will be going back to commuting to work in his office full time. This is going to be a bittersweet transition for both of us. When the pandemic began in March 2020, he was in no way prepared to work from home. It took adjustments and compromises …
Tag: gratitude
On Break
As of last Monday, I am taking a two-week leave of absence from my job. This leave is a result of the building stress I have been experiencing which has resulted in physical symptoms including loss of visual acuity, elevated blood pressure and greater-than-normal sleep disturbances. This stress is not entirely work-related, but the part …
My 100th Post 🌟💯🥂
When I started this blog in April of 2020, we were all just beginning to figure out what it meant to be living in a pandemic. In America, we had an aspiring fascist for a president and an election on the horizon that was one major test of whether the country was going to persist …
Don’t Be an Asshole
OK, soapbox time. I am REALLY tired of people not listening, not respecting and generally tending to assume the worst intentions of ANYONE who has a different opinion than they do and who dares to speak it. This is bullshit and it has to stop. Here is the truth. Nobody has all the same opinions/thoughts …
Myopia
I've been thinking a lot lately about how we, as individual human beings, can contribute to the healing of our society. It should be clear to everyone at this point that humanity has a list of existential crises that we have known about for more or less time. These situations have not yet been addressed …
Balls in the Air
I wanted to make sure I got something published, just to make sure you all didn't think I had dropped off the earth or anything. The truth is, there are a ton of things "in the works" right now and I'm not really at liberty to reveal any of them yet. I have been busy, …
Is Growth Inevitable?
In many different contexts, it seems as if things are continually increasing, rising, expanding or growing. We are told the universe grows as though the galaxies are placed on the outside of a balloon that is being blown up indefinitely (until it pops?). We are also told that if you are able to save even …
Becoming Unstuck
I don't think its a huge secret that I have felt pretty stuck for a long time, like years. There is not a really clear reason why this is. Part of it is overwhelm, laziness, inertia, but a good part of it is external as well. When the pandemic happened, I was relatively emotionally prepared …
The REAL Return of Spring
Here in the Pacific Northwest (USA), we have had one heckuva winter and spring. In a normal year, we would be starting to see daffodils pop up out of the ground right around my birthday in mid-February, a fact that always boggled the minds of my grandparents in Chicago when they were alive. 2021, however, …
How Much Does a Bath Cost?
As previously mentioned, I am on vacation this week. So far, activities have included sleeping in, getting a sunburn on the deck while having morning coffee, playing multiple games of cribbage and Rummikub with dear husband, paddling in the kayaks for a short time and MAYBE seeing a pinniped of some sort in the water, …
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