Showing posts with label coronavirus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coronavirus. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 2, 2023

A to Z Reflections 2023 #AtoZChallenge

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Welcome to my Reflections on the 2023 Blogging from A to Z Challenge.  Along with hundreds of other bloggers, I participated in a blogging ...
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Thursday, January 19, 2023

The Teen Years and More Thoughts on an Alumni Day

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When I think of the possibility of reincarnation, one of the things I dread going through once again is my teen years.  Or, well, the teen y...
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Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Art Social

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 During the first three weeks of October, our general area runs several "art trails" on weekends.  On each of these, you can visit...
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Tuesday, October 4, 2022

What If The Pandemic Had Never Happened?

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Do you like playing the "What if" game?   I do, sometimes.  Saturday and Sunday were one of those times. I went to a county wide A...
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Tuesday, September 13, 2022

What Was Once Familiar

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Once, the routine was familiar.  Expected.  Normal. The commute to work.  Entering the building.  Walking to my office, taking off my coat i...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Facing the Future by Remembering The Past

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A heads up: this post includes some discussion of a book that takes a deep dive into COVID's affect on those who experienced the pandemi...
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Tuesday, August 2, 2022

The Summer Picnic Reunion

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For years, the company I worked for held an annual company picnic for employees and their families.  They got away from it in more recent ye...
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Tuesday, June 28, 2022

The Dead Goldfish and Other Colonoscopy Adventures

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Yes, you read the title of my blog post correctly.  And fair warning, it's going to get a little gross. But before I get into my latest ...
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Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Retirement Thoughts

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The other day, I was congratulating a co worker for her promotion, and she asked me, "When are you going to retire?" I'm techn...
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Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Sadness at the A to Z

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Blogging from A to Z is a blogging event I participate in each April. Participants start with the letter A on April 1, the letter B on April...
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Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Neighborhood Church #WordlessWednesday

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For years, the small neighborhood church had served its members, many of whom were refugees from Southeast Asia. When churches had to go rem...
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Saturday, January 8, 2022

In the Mall 2022 Style

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Today was one of those deceptive sunny days where I live in the Southern Tier of New York.  It looks lovely outside but it's cold, and w...
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Saturday, December 18, 2021

Blue Christmas 2021

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Today would have been my mother in law's 94th birthday. This throwback is from December 9, 2009, the first time I wrote about "Blu...
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Sunday, December 12, 2021

Mourning The Living

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Today, I look in the shadows. This won't be a light hearted post but let me lighten it with a photo from this fall. Today was the birth...
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Saturday, November 6, 2021

Tragedy in A Small City

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I am in mourning today, for a town in Iowa I haven't been to in almost twenty years, for a high school that three of my first cousins we...
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Tuesday, September 7, 2021

A Post Labor Day Rant

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No flowers today.  Instead, it's time for a rant.  I backed off from it but got encouragement from some of my regular readers (thank you...
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Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Friending Co-Workers on Facebook Dilemma Again

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This is a reworking of a post from 2018, because it's become relevant once more. Why am I feeling so out-of-the-loop again? It's a...
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Sunday, June 27, 2021

Time Passages

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 I write some of my best blog posts in that hazy, intermediate time after I wake up (especially at 4:30 am) and I'm still kind of half a...
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Tuesday, June 22, 2021

For When It's Time

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Important note before I begin:  If you subscribed to my blog by email, you will need to resubscribe (using the box at the upper right corner...
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Sunday, June 13, 2021

Primary Voting 2021

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I think my first voting post was in 2010 , and I've blogged about it several times since. For example, the elections of 2020, which I ...
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