I'm probably the last person to hear this wording or concept, but after today, my life may just be improved having heard it. I've been engaged, much of the day, with a number of conversations on LinkedIn with people who may legitimately believe that when and because they have a thought, that not only is …
Tag: psychology
Intentionality
I just watched a news story about America's declining birth rate. As is custom for the PBS NewsHour, the story was geared toward demography, data, and overarching context with a sprinkling of personal anecdote. Here's my take. Birthrate are declining in this country; that's an inarguable fact. The reasons for this, however, are varied, nuanced …
Epiphany
I have just had an epiphany. I think I've finally put a few concepts together for something that has NEVER, in my life, made a lick of sense. I had no idea at all what made successful people successful or what they were confident about. Success didn't make sense at all. Most of the popular …
Thresholds
Everyone has boundaries, even if they rarely get violated, or you don't know exactly what they are, or you DO know but do not enforce well with others. Those boundaries do exist and many of us were stretched beyond what we thought we were physically, mentally, and emotionally capable of only 5 years ago. Quite …
THE POST I’ve Been Unable to Conjure for Weeks
Someone very specific that I know will be VERY happy that I was (finally) inspired to cough this one up; believe me, it was hard going. As I write this brief intro, I'm still not entirely sure how I'll be going about telling this story. A more polished writer might choose not to get meta …
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Musings
We are all products of our experiences, they say. Of course, some of it is genetic, the point where we start, the hand we are dealt, but then what happens over the course of our lives can, and will, drastically reshape who we could have become in an alternate set of circumstances. For those born …
Surveillance
I went to the grocery store today for a single item. I generally take great pains to avoid single-item trips for efficiency and environmental reasons. My list-making and meal planning skills are pretty on point. However, today, I needed to buy tampons and nothing else. And, of course, Murphy's Law would not allow this trip …
Drought
Hey y'all, it's been a minute, eh? I didn't exactly plan to take a hiatus from the blog entirely and yet it's clearly what I needed to do for the last while, says the universe. And now, the universe is telling me (by keeping me awake on the one night when I VERY INTENTIONALLY went …
The Definition of Mansplaining
I've been trying to help my parents rid themselves of the canoe that they have owned and loved for 30 years. I generally try to avoid Craigslist for this sort of thing, but after my incredibly quaint idea of printing out flyers with my name/number on tags at the bottom, strategically placed near all the …
Derailed
So, folks, it has been a while. Any semblance of a writing "practice" I had built beginning at the onset of the pandemic in March 2020 has left my being due to an intense series of events that have occurred to and around me and my family in the last two months. I will admit …
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