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My Greatest Strength Is an Obstacle to Meditation
I recently discovered that my employer gives employees a free subscription to the Headspace app, so I’ve been trying to meditate again. I’ve heard for years about the benefits of meditation and I had a subscription of my own for a little bit but cancelled it when I got out Read more…
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Website Maintenance
Maybe you noticed that my site has been only limping along for the past couple of days. I did a couple of posts the other day, went to bed, and didn’t think about my site for a minute. And then husby pinged me and said he couldn’t get to my Read more…
Internet Stuff
Not a Paid Promotion
Husby and I have, for reasons that are beyond my ability to explain, purchased a bunch of new pictures and had them framed for our new place. After looking at a lot of different sites, we’ve ended up using Frame It Easy. They aren’t superfancy, but the work is good. Read more…
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Secret Squirrel: My Bad Tendency
I have a terrible tendency: I hide my processes. I’ve been in a quiet mood for the past few days while I’ve noodled over this story I’ve been working on. Husby has asked me a couple of times, “What’s wrong?” And I’ve said nothing is wrong, not fully realizing that Read more…
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A Thing I Learned about Myself and Food
This fitness challenge has only been going for a little over a week and it’s been pretty good. The workouts themselves are challenging, but they’re scalable, so I’m able to do what works for me and push myself as needed. The food has been really tasty and for the first Read more…
Parenting
Fit Fathers
I have a conflicted relationship with regular exercise. It’s good for me. It makes me feel good. I do not like it. I would very much rather take up a team sport or something, but that comes with the issue of having to deal with other people, which I try Read more…
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Goodbye, Lilly B!
Today was a really tough day. We had to have our 15 year old dachshund, Lilly Belle, put to sleep. I’ll spare you the details, but she was getting old and it was really showing. Every time we moved or there was some big change or we just left for Read more…