photo credit: @gaellemarcel via Unsplash It’s been a week. Literally and figuratively. I am writing straight from the heart today. I honestly have not completely processed the outcome of the election. I keep thinking to myself “How is that possible? Why is Tr*mp allowed to be president again? How was he allowed to...
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I spent twelve hours with colleagues at a work conference today. Here I am, five hours away from home, when all I really want is a hug from Jon and him telling me that it will be ok. He did call me and said these words but they sounded hollow....
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I’ve seen this phrase on social media a few times in the last couple of days and whoever said it first (I think it was Robert Reich during the 2020 election) perfectly captured how many of us feel today, on Election Day 2024. I ran through my neighborhood this morning...
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image credit: @libbyvanderploeg We’re a few days 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 sad, I am enraged, and I need you all to go out and vote if you haven’t already. I...
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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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