Unexpected changes to plans left me entirely alone with myself yesterday. A cancellation and a postponement left me with a day of no requirements, no appointments, no nothing. Initially, it felt daunting. I had many things I wished to do (blog, read, edit a friend’s novel, cook, sort my clothes, go shopping for a new juicer, backup my computer, do laundry, etc, etc). Yes, the list of things TO DO grew to be long. And…
Another year is upon us. I can hardly believe that it will be 2020!!!! I remember working for Hewlett Packard during the Y2K event that was so NOT an event! They did pay double-time to work that night when nothing happened, so no complaints from me. And now, two decades and a lot of life, dare I say “lives,”?, have come and gone. We are now on the precipice of a new year and a…
The first international news event I remember being conscious of was the disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant which occurred on April 26, 1986. I would have been twelve at the time of the accident. While I remember the Challenger disaster earlier that same year–we sat and watched the news reports come in while sitting in Mr. Kelley’s 6th grade classroom–it was Chernobyl that imprinted itself on my young mind. On and off over…