I am doing NaBloPoMo this month. 30 blog posts in 30 days. Come join me. #nablopomo2022 While I was out on my run last weekend, I came across this “leftover” Halloween decoration that I remembered from a previous election year, just with a slightly different message. Today is midterm election...
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Five Things Friday: just five things I’m thinking about or things that made my week, or things that I otherwise feel like sharing. I was on my bi-weekly grocery run this morning and listened to NPR (as I usually do in the car) and heard “President Biden” a few times...
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Happy New Year, friends. I hope you all arrived safely in the much anticipated year of 2021. I always have a little bit of a delayed blogging start in January. I always feel like lots of posts revolve around resolutions, goal mapping, new intentions, and while I think about these...
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I am doing NaBloPoMo this month. 30 blog posts in 30 days. Come join me. #nablopomo2020 photo credit: @gaellemarcel via Unsplash Yep, here were are, almost 48 hours later and we still don’t know who our president is going to be. It’s a little nerve-racking for everyone, including for Donald Trump and...
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I am doing NaBloPoMo this month. 30 blog posts in 30 days. Come join me. #nablopomo2020 photo credit @blessthemessy I didn’t know what I was going to write about today. When I outlined my NaBloPoMo posts, I purposefully left today’s date open. I expected that I would actually sit down today and...
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I am doing NaBloPoMo this month. 30 blog posts in 30 days. Come join me. #nablopomo2020 Jon used to be a huge Halloween fan. Me? Not so much. I didn’t grow up celebrating Halloween (in Germany, November, 1 – All Saint’s Day – is a national holiday, but we didn’t celebrate Halloween...
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image credit: @libbyvanderploeg We’re less than a week away from election day and I don’t know what I could say at this point that hasn’t been said. I am tired, I am enraged (my stomach is figuratively in knots and on fire and I have the heartburn to prove it),...
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{via @politico} If you thought things can’t get any worse, you can count on 2020 to throw another wrench into the works. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman in history to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, died in Washington, from complications from cancer, at the age 87. When I...
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Today is Super Tuesday. A lot of states vote in the presidential primaries today, including California.I am so glad they moved our primary voting day from June to March. I always thought it was kind of unfair for a large state like California to not have more weight in the...
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{Photo by John Moore.} Do you feel exhausted? I feel exhausted. Not from the long days at the office, the early wake-up calls on gym day, or the weekends that fly by way too fast for my liking, but rather all the news – bad news – lately. It’s not enough...
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