We made it to 2021! Although I don’t harbor any illusions about how much better and fairer and less stressful and less . . . plague-ridden the coming year will be, I’m still so, so ready to leave 2020 behind. I wrote in last year’s resolution’s post about how I was craving “stability and consistency,” […]
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What a year, am I right? Frankly, I think I speak for every person alive when I say that I’ll be happy to close the door on 2020 once and for all. Between the pandemic and the election and the wave of racial justice/anti-police brutality protests, it was a struggle to find the energy or
Prior to the 2016 election, I didn’t bother to write a post like this. In fact, I don’t remember paying especially much attention to the campaigning or the debates, to what individual people were saying or what the polls were saying. This was partly because I was far less politically active then, and partly because
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With every quarterly update I write, I find myself hoping that I won’t have to mention the COVID-19 pandemic by the time the next quarter rolls around, or that I’ll be able to focus on how much things have improved at the very least. Such is not the case this month, unfortunately, as the United
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It has been a surreal three months, am I right? When I published my last quarterly update, the pandemic was just taking hold in the United States, I had just made the switch to working from home, and none of us knew how bad things would be or how long they would last. At the
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Considering there are states across the country already starting to relax their pandemic restrictions, this post might be a little less timely than it would’ve been a month ago. However, I think we can all agree that COVID-19 is likely to hang around for many weeks–or months–more, and that the unpleasant mental, emotional, and financial
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Because I’m always looking for excuses to blog more and because I don’t always remember to put personal updates on Twitter, I’m going to try something new to me: a Quarterly Update. Although the information I’ll include each quarter will likely change from time to time, it should (hopefully) provide a broader overview of what
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When a friend first convinced me to come try her dance class, I was excited . . . and apprehensive. Dance was one of those things that had always vaguely interested me, but which I’d never been brave enough to do. Although I have pretty good balance and reflexes for a non-athlete, I’ve also never
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I’ve already blogged at least once about how I turned thirty back in the fall, but I haven’t really talked about how I feel about that. There was a period in my mid-twenties where my birthdays were weirdly upsetting, when I felt like my life was completely passing me by and I hadn’t done much
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Happy 2020, everyone! I don’t know about you all, but I’m staring down the barrel of this new year and new decade with equal parts anticipation and apprehension. Between the big life changes I have coming my way and the fact that it’s an election year, I’m craving stability and consistency more than ever before,
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