On one of my go-to podcasts about writing, they always end with “You’re out of excuses, now go write.” And I get it. I am full of excuses, but some days the excuses seem to weigh so much, I can’t move past them. A lot of time it is related…
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Sunday Scraps I have finally gotten back to writing my blog, and realized I have 18 scraps of blog posts. I feel a twinge of guilt every time I see them, and it is difficult to write new things knowing I left so much lingering, unfinished. So I have created…
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Last month my husband and I joined my parents for a cruise that traveled from Reykjavik, to three Icelandic ports, and three Greenland ports. Well, that was the plan, anyway. Just before we flew across the Atlantic left there were over 4,000 small earthquakes in Iceland, magma rising and pressing…
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2021 – the chorus of “This Year” by The Mountain Goats See Part One In 2021 my work situation changed from full-time remote worker, to working on campus 3 days a week (thanks to UF’s new Remote Work Policy which grants up to 40% remote work for positions that can…
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Another One Bites the Dust – 2021 retrospective So, yeah. COVID – still a thing. Now with exciting new varieties! Find Delta and Omicron in a location near you! There was a lot over this year that I thought about blogging. But, for another year, COVID had me feeling like…
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Gallery of images spanning from our wedding in 1999, forward (we do have 4 more years of photo evidence, but they’re all physical photos that we’ve not scanned yet!)
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The first time I heard the phrase “Filling the Well” as it relates to creativity was in college. I was part of our school’s Improv and sketch group, Theatre Strike Force. One of our members, Lynette, had started a smaller team within to work together on skits that educated as…
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2020 was a slog, so I decided to recap all the positives in my year. Photo intensive post documenting the good things.
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Simple and meaningful, this cat resides on my left ankle.
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A forlorn looking winged boy, original art from my sibling, was my second tattoo.