-
What’s On My Mind This Week
Follow Me
Stuff Only an Admin Would Love
Category Archives: Uncategorized
Radical Self Acceptance
I keep seeing this meme on Facebook and Twitter about now not being the time to learn a new skill, take up a new hobby, start a new side business (and I’m sorry, but I am so done with the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
2 Comments
The Lessons of 20-Year-Olds
Because I’m worried about my job (I think I’m going to be laid off in the next 2-4 weeks), the general state of the world, an uncle in congestive heart failure and a nephew who is dying, and I will … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
3 Comments
Sit Rep
This morning I asked my niece in law if she could, in her “spare time”, please get a hold of one of Andy’s doctors to get a letter indicating that Andy was going to be dying soon. You see, the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
4 Comments
All the Things
This week I have a grant application due, I have a paper due, I have a class, I have several tricky meetings, I have to drive back to Billings for a few days (Andy is failing. Oh, his body is … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
3 Comments
And a Pot of Habitant
The man my mother was dating, the man I call a sort of step father now, tells me that he uses the day he last spoke to you as a day of reflection. You come to me differently. At the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
1 Comment
E-1
If you’ve never spent time around a campaign office (and if you haven’t, you should. Everyone should volunteer on a campaign at least once!) E-1 might not make sense. It means the eve of the election. It’s 9pm here in … Continue reading
Posted in Feats of Wonder, Politics, Uncategorized
1 Comment
All those things that don’t change come what may
Douglas popped in and out of my life. Like many of the adults of my childhood, he moved in an unknown and unknowable rhythm. He’d ring the doorbell, stay for coffee, stay for dinner, stay for the night, stay for … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
1 Comment
The Nature of Probability.
When you read that text at the bottom of a poll or survey, which says “19 times out of 20, with a margin of error of 5%, this poll is correct”, it has meaning. If I tell you that 50% … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
2 Comments
Coda
The day Owen moved out, I came home from helping him move and Coda was sitting on the newel post, meowing at me. I told him it was just us now. I had to keep going because he still needed … Continue reading
Posted in Furry Slugs, Uncategorized
5 Comments
Piano Lessons
I had a classmate who was really good at math. It came easily to her, like breathing. Math was . . . incomprehensible to me. I’ve learned since it isn’t that it’s incomprehensible, it’s just hard. I pass math by … Continue reading
Posted in Learning Life, Uncategorized
1 Comment