I've written about change a lot in the last year. It's kinda one of my fascinations in life. Having spent much of my life feeling stuck in situations that were not entirely of my doing or planning or in my control, punctuated by episodes of immediate and sometimes drastic change (like moving to a new …
Tag: society
Not Wearing Masks, and Now, Not Getting Vaccinated, are the “Man-Spreading” of the Pandemic
I have been thinking a lot about space lately. Not like outer space, NASA, celestial bodies, but space here on earth, especially in cities. Cities work as systems because everyone agrees to take up less space in land for their home, their possessions, etc. Population density is higher for this reason. In cities, the concept …
As the Pandemic Wanes…
We have been through a lot. Some of us have lost family members and friends to Covid. Some have lost family members and friends to other causes. We have lost jobs, careers, ways of life, routines, traditions, feelings of trust and safely, feelings that things are OK. Every single person will be forever changed by …
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 …
Incentive to Work in America
In the arguments occurring in Congress over the last few weeks (and months and years, really), we often hear the conservatives arguing that people should definitely not be given "too generous " unemployment benefits because it reduces or removes the incentive to work. These are the same people who talk about the value of a …
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. …
Resilience
People usually think of resilience as a positive trait for one to have. If you are resilient, you are a survivor. Resilience allows you to persist in spite of adversity. To bounce back quickly when things go sideways. But what if resilience comes at a cost? What if by focusing on resilience as something to …
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 …
I Believe in Black Supremacy
I'm an autistic white woman. Generally, I don't tend to go through life thinking that I'm better than anyone else. Based solely on what I've endured/survived in my life, I have barely been tested and I'm still exhausted. Many people endure much more, namely Black women. This is not a self-hating screed or anything. Just …
Why I Started Writing
I began this blog nearly a year ago. I recall thinking that it could be a place for me to sort out my feelings about all that has been going on in the world for the last 4 years during the now-prior American presidential administration. Of course it was the pandemic that was the last …
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