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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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Thursday, April 23, 2009

Retroblog April 23, 1983

Today is April, 23, 1983 Time 7:32 pm

Yesterday I went to a special Merrie Miss Mom Nite. I had fun. And I was in a talet show. The people in charge told us about a Secert Sister program in which they give you a name of another girl in a different ward and you write to one another But you sign, Your Secert Sister. It is fun. From all of it I got, a pin, two programs, aflower to remind to write my Secert Sister, a card about my Secert Sister, an award, an invatian, an a picture of my mom and me (with frame), and lots of good feelings.

I seriously want to go back in time and tell my 11-yr-old self to write down what I did at the "talet show," the name of the "secert" sister, put the picture of my mom and me and the programs in this journal. Oh -- and also not to write in a journal in pencil because it's impossible to read or photograph or scan almost 20 years later. I had to Xerox this with super contrast, and then take a photo of the paper, and then use Photoshop on it to get it semi-legible.

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