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PROGRAMMING NOTE from the Author and Archivist


So obviously I just stopped blogging on this platform. I'll get back to it eventually. Or not. I'm taking a break from all social media. It seemed necessary for my mental health.

The last few years have been busy and … challenging:

- 2015 Happened.
- 2016 Let's call it The Lost Year. (Obviously words failed me.)
- 2017 about broke me. Literally. Mentally.
- 2018 was ridiculous, proving 2017 was just a warm up. (Good thing I was already broken so it couldn't hurt as much.#2018TrashCanFire I thought things were going okay, but maybe not?)

- 2019 was such a blur. I know there were highlights, but then stuff happened and carried into the next year...

- And then in March#2020 really took a turn. Who can even categorize 2020? Do we dare?


I kinda want a do-over of some of the last few years. But life doesn’t work that way.


So for now, I'm hunkering down. Regrouping. Trying to stay safe and sort some stuff out.


Stay safe everyone. Stay well.

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Friday, January 9, 2009

Grateful 1/8/09

Yesterday I was grateful for my seat on the morning train. It's not a given that I'll get a seat, so I'm always grateful that I don't have to stand and I don't have to squeeze in between people.

I was also very grateful that my colleague ended up treating me to a lunch at the local hummus place, in spite of me being the one who extended the invitation. This meant that I could send my budgeted lunch money to my sister-in-law.

I am so grateful to that sister-in-law, who lovingly agreed to mail me the huge box of stuff I bought while on vacation that wouldn't fit in my suitcase. My arms and back were grateful that I didn't have to haul an even heavier suitcase home from the airport and through the mass transit system.

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