I'm not quite there yet, but as of Saturday morning, I will officially be going on vacation for a week. Dear husband and I are busting out of our tiny home and away from our computers and work for 7 whole days. We are heading to the Olympic Peninsula, one of my favorite places. I'm …
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Difficult Week with a Couple of Bright Spots
This week has felt particularly rough for some reason. Daily work is a grind. There is so much to do and maybe enough time, but not enough concentration or attention. I just haven't been able to concentrate consistently. It ebbs and flows. It's as though my mind has a mind of its own! The other …
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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 …
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 …
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. …
What Else Could Go Wrong?
This is kind of an emergency blog post. My city has been locked in an insane frozen wintery wonderland for the last 3 days. And before you ask, no, this is not normal. We typically get 0-1 snow/ice events per year, with significant accumulation across the whole metro area one every 5 or so years. …
Things that Bring Me Joy
The truth is, this post is a total cop out. I have about 10 half-written gems just waiting to be completed but I just can't concentrate or focus on any single idea this week so far. Hopefully, I will be able to clear some of my brain clutter and get back on track shortly. In …
The Best Advice I Ever Heard
There are definitely times I have struggled over the last year to keep writing. I am consistently plagued by voices in my head saying that I'm not contributing to society as I said I wanted to, or that there are so many people already writing more eloquently about autism, or simply that blogging is so …
Things We Have Lost in 2020 – Band/Music
I play saxophone in a band, or rather, I USED to play saxophone in a band. The pandemic has shut us down, 100% completely for the last year. This has caused a great disruption in my regular weekly routine and my social relationships. The Power Pep Band had just celebrated our 20th anniversary with an …
What If I am an Artist?
Typically, at least in America, when someone asks you who you "are," they really mean what is your profession. This came up at work recently when our team's question of the week was "When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?" Whenever I get that question, of course …
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