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As I write now, it’s September 11, 2021. Twenty years since 9/11. I won’t post this today but I thought I’d take that moment to pause, as one does on this day but I suppose especially this day twenty years later. What did we learn from that day, from those days after, from that moment…
I do so love the three day weekends. August feels like the longest month, work-wise, because there are neither holidays nor breaks in all that month. It’s just work on the weekdays and then the weekend. It’s always such a relief to get through it. I started working overtime this week. I know, me, overtime?…
if I whisper your namewill you hear it on the breezean unfamiliar voicesoft and lowwill you reach out in whimsycurious and openthen laugh at the notionyet still wonderat the longing that clingsgentle upon your heart It’s been awhile since a bit of poetry so I thought, why not? I should write more poetry… So my…
I just noticed that my WordPress is publishing to my Livejournal again. Well, it posted my previous post. Will it do the same for this one? We shall see… I had randomly clicked on the link to my LJ and was surprised to see my latest post. As I scrolled, I saw that my last…
This post is late because I spent Sunday afternoon/evening hanging out with my cousins. So why not talk about that? My uncle and cousin live in Las Vegas and they were out this way for a shot visit. It’s been a couple of years at least since we’ve seen them so it was a great…
The first full week of school has come and gone. The weather was hot and we had one whole day of NO INTERNET at work. Yes, that was an interesting day and many of us realized how much we use the internet for our work. It made me appreciate the fact that I keep a…
It felt like such a long week. Maybe because school started. Maybe because we had hot days. I was so glad when it was finally Friday but the weekend is never long enough, is it? We had our Convocation on Wednesday. It was great seeing everyone. The outdoor set up was new but it was…
Summer break doesn’t last very long for the kids out this way. The schools out here operate on a modified traditional schedule, which means they have two week breaks after every quarter, making the summer break shorter by a few weeks compared to other schools. After working for the district all these years, I’ve gotten…