Well we’re a month into 2022 and it’s been quite a year thus far. I started it off sick. Not Covid. Probably the flu. That put me out of commission for a good 2 weeks. Then I fractured a bone in the top of my foot at the end of January. No work for 3 […]
Face Those Fears
By the time you read this I will have taken my first exam of the semester. It was supposed to be last week, but I was busy battling the flu, so this week it is. Here’s the funny thing. You know what I’m most anxious about? Not being anxious. I feel adequately prepared. Comfortable with […]
Stargazing
“Well aren’t you living on the edge?” says Dad. He means I’m drinking a cup of coffee in the afternoon. Maybe it will keep me up past 7:30 tonight. It certainly can’t hurt my sleeping pattern at this point. I’m exhausted. But that’s not why I’m writing today. Nope. I’m not going to complain today. […]
Walk Today. Dance Tomorrow.
This afternoon has been full of revelation. I’m not going to label it good or bad. Labels suck. Revelation is simply an awareness of truth. And truth has no bias. Revelation 1: My hip has not functioned properly for over a third of my life. It’s true. I broke my hip when I was 18. January of […]
Maybe They’re The Crazy Ones
She laughed at me. I didn’t crack a smile. Half a second later she stopped, suddenly realizing that this was not a joke. I was serious. It was that time of the week. The time when I meet with a staff member for a “check-in.” She asks me about my week, goes down a list […]
“Someone Should Have Warned Her”
It was my first day of training and there I sat in our team meeting. The meeting had started late because I was late. I was in a car accident the day before and had to rent a car that morning. Not at all the way I had planned on starting my brand new job. […]