At the beginning of school, a new chapter. I always had a love hate relationship with the fall – the excitement and slight dread of something new and unknown, the grief and inertia of moving on from what you have known. Its a feeling that’s held over even though I …
The girls are in Florida. Yesterday as I was driving 66 into the city to get to DCA, I had a sudden flashback to more than 30 years ago. Driving the same stretch of highway, taking the Glebe road exit for a job interview that would take me here and …
Tick tick tick. Savi is off at the science camp. She was quite anxious the weekend before, getting to a fever pitch. J and I dropped her off at Dulles, meeting a van driven by interns from the Green Bank Observatory. They were lively college kids, and there were 5 …
Oof. Feel a little squeezed, but its probably all my own doing,. First random thought based on this article. This fits with my experience with self-professed “smart” people. The douchiest people (well, men) I’ve ever met readily advertised/volunteered that they were in Mensa, as if that in and of itself …
Technology doesn’t like me recently. Stupid WordPress went haywire last week with the latest update, the plugin I use for security seemed to completely reset. Today for virtual piano we had to go through 5 laptops to find one that worked properly for Zoom. (Usual laptop’s speaker went kablooie, Annika’s …
It’s been an emotionally hefty last week or so, and I’ve been needing to journal it out and deconstruct my feelings. Last week, the juxtaposition of a few events had me feeling like there is a significant theme going on. And if life is a story, then it has chapters. …