This week, my husband is pod-visiting his elderly parents - one of the advantages of everyone being vaccinated is that they can all get together. One of the advantages for me is that I'm only demi-vaccinated now; so I had to stay home. Since my husband has been leaving the house fewer times than I …
Do you wake up some mornings, fully primed? Where your brain is already fully in thought about something? I'm not sure what started me this morning. I had been talking last night about all the people in my life - my sister, my sister-in-law, friends, the leader of my Toastmasters chapter, colleagues, random people I …
This morning, I was awakened in the wee hours of the morning. You know when you wake up and you're not quite awake enough to figure out why you're awake? So you lie there, thinking thoughts until it finally occurs to you, oh, I'm awake, what time is it anyway? and then you try to …
I recently watched a documentary about some people who had gotten in trouble online. One of them read a story online that captured their imagination, made them feel that they had learned something about the world that others didn't know. Something that made the world make a little more sense to them. They heard about …
My husband poked his head in my office. "I'm going down to the lobby to pick up the FedEx," he said and disappeared. I hadn't even realized that we had a FedEx - had been too busy at work that day to even check my personal email. His statement distracted me momentarily: what could it …
