This marks week three of work-from-home, or rather our current do-everything-from-home existence. I don’t know about you, but I am feeling diseased. No, I am not sick or ill, I have no symptoms of COVID or any other illness. But I have great dis-ease with the reality of our lives right now. I feel like the sea looked on Monday morning (featured image above)–rough, choppy, gray, and menacing. The first hour of my day has…
Many of us live with a list of things we plan or hope or imagine that we will do… someday. Someday when we have enough money. Someday when the children are grown. Someday when we have more time. Someday when ______________. It has occurred to me that these strange times we find ourselves in may very well be someday. I am fortunate to be able to do my work (albeit NOT the same quality or…
It’s no secret that I’m not a baby person! I’m often that one person in the room that pulls back or shies away from holding the coworker’s baby when they come to visit the office after giving birth. When my siblings had their children, I was living afar and only had opportunity to interact in small doses. My friends have often been people with grown/older children, those that haven’t yet had them, OR those that,…