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Monday Mental Health Check In: 245 Days

| November 16, 2020

Or eight months since we started dealing with COVID-19. That’s a long time to still be dealing with the same thing. Even scarier is that we are seeing another rise in the curve that does not seem to be reducing. It is another wave that appeared after Halloween. I am dreading what we are looking […]

RTBTCKI Weighted Kitten

| November 15, 2020

I found out about weighted blankets through a friend who got one for her son on the recommendation of his therapist. She said it was a miracle. Her son was able to sleep through the night rather than waking up at an absurd hour and unable to get back to sleep. I got Caroline one […]

Happy Birthday to My Dad 2020 Edition

| November 14, 2020

There was a PSA that aired a number of years ago from the fatherhood.gov site of an older woman hearing someone chanting in the courtyard. She looks out to see a full-grown man doing a cheerleading routine. The camera pulls back to find his daughter next to him doing the routine as well. The voice […]

Can we please get rid of the Yeah Buts?

| November 13, 2020

I have noticed something that is really grinding my gears that I am seeing more and more. We have a feel-good story or a moment that shows humanity at its best form then someone comes along and says Yeah, but then proceeds to ruin any chance of the story ever feeling good again. A large […]

Monday Mental Health Check In: And I’m feeling groovy

| November 9, 2020

Feeling groovy is an idiom meaning to feel happy and calm.  I learned the phrase from Simon and Garfunkel from their song entitles the 59th Street Bridge song (Feeling Groovy). And that is how I am feeling for the first time in a long time.  I have hope and that has made so much of a […]