I’ve been trying to think of something to do to mark the 50th trip around the sun….a Youtube channel called ‘Office Hours’…..digital footprints in the sand for future folks to stumble on….a nod to my genealogist mom…how might her work have gone if her search for family history had been more than grave sites….my descendants […]
Category: thoughts
Adding social media bits to keep…
Tis the season
In search of…happiness
Finishing the last season of “The Good Place” on Netflix and I’m more than a little surprised at the philosophical nature of the writing. It’s been a long time since I’ve done the whole ‘why am I here’ thing but the show does make you think about the nature of belief, the nature of existence […]
Shifting….
So just after 2000 and our move from Louisiana back to Missouri I was given the opportunity to learn the travel industry from the ground up. And 20 years later the travel industry is essentially blown up by the pandemic. My business travel clients are now not able to travel. We’re all furloughed, then LOA’d […]
Pandemic Sanity Pt. 1
A paradigm shift is defined by the writing of Thomas S. Kuhn (1922-96) as a fundamental change in approach or underlying assumptions. Or in revolutionary war lyrics made popular modern day via ‘Hamilton,’ “the world turned upside down.” It took me until my mid 40s to care about politics. My teenaged daughter is not the […]
I have to imagine, that when she died, suddenly she was standing next to her body looking at it like she was disappointed in its ability to hold on a little longer. I wish I knew what her curse words of choice would’ve been. Her first words in spirit probably mimicked a lot of ours […]
The red ball
I was following behind a big,, four door, brown sedan on the way to Plattsburg the other day. I was thinking to myself how old the car was, but how well it was kept up when I saw movement inside and a red ball came flying out of passenger side. I slowed down because I […]
Reemployment thoughts
Trying to find work again, when the pandemic has blown your 14 year career out of the skies – to put it in word – SUCKS! Just for grins, I put in for a jewelers apprenticeship and they called! The sucky part….we live so far out of the city that it’s commute that might negate […]