2am is not a normal time to be awake, and yet I am more often than not. I don't work the graveyard shift or anything... Typical day job for this lady. And yet. And still. Some nights I just don't feel tired and I end up working or writing or reading, completely losing track of …
Tag: gratitude
Pandemic Revelations
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 …
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 …
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 …
Raspberries
I love the idea of gardening. Having ample vegetables and herbs to cook with, all right in your back yard. I have made several attempts to sustain a reasonable vegetable garden and I have learned a lot, mostly about myself, including that I HATE GARDENING. I have what could commonly be referred to as "a …
Shorts #1
Change is inevitable. When abrupt, existential change disrupts your life, it is a reminder not to get too comfortable. Life is too short. All the things you are missing in the lockdown, that you currently cannot do, are forms of privilege, things you took for granted and may have not appreciated when you had them. …
Counting blessings
Now is the time to be grateful. If you are paying attention to the news during this time of pandemic, it is impossible to miss all the tales of incredible suffering, including death. It will be a long time before we know the total number of people who will be affected by the novel coronavirus. …
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