It’s 1985, and I’m in high school. Life is stressful. I spend a lot of my time alone. My home life is isolated. My school hours are spent studying. I keep to myself. I have my notebook and pencil as constant companions, and they are filled with pages of my thoughts and poems expressing my…
Category: health
What Is The Value Of A Human Life?
Where has the value of a human life gone? Why do we as a society no longer feel the pain of a loss, no matter whose life has been extinguished? Why do some lives have more value than others? I’m not alone in asking these questions. Again this week I have heard of a local…
This Year, 2025, Is Gone (Gratefully?)
Goodbye 2025! This year is another year gone by in the blink of an eye. Where did the time go? Is it just because we are getting older that time seems to fly past, or is it that time itself is speeding up? Usually, at this time of the year I review the year and…
My Heart Exploded Today
Maybe exploded is a bit dramatic, but it should tell you how I actually felt. Today was a day that I needed, and I think one that so many of us need as well. The day started out simple. When I woke, my husband already had breakfast on the table. I enjoyed scrambled eggs with…
Oh SNAP! Now What Do We Do?
If you are like me, you noticed the only thing making headlines this week is the fact that the federal government is not going to pay out for SNAP benefits. Every news station and “influencer” seem to make that the lead story every day. Then, if you follow any of it on social media, there…
By Glitch or By Switch?
I am probably going to step on a few toes with this post, or at the very least be labeled a conspiracy theorist. That’s OK with me if it makes people think. Was the recent outage from Amazon a glitch or a switch? And why did it affect so many? I’m not new to computers…
Rapture Disapointment?
If you were anywhere around social media this last week, you more than likely heard all the reports and rumors that the world was going to end around September 23rd or 24th, and the “rapture” was going to happen. The heavens would raise up and swallow all good believers. Meanwhile, the left behind were doomed…
What’s the Deal With AI?
What’s the deal with AI? These days everything about AI is being pushed upon us. Social media wants us to use AI to answer our questions. Search engines want us to use AI to help us search. We are encouraged to use AI to change up our photos or even create pictures of things that…
Stop Alienating Your Tribe
We live in a world of division. There are a lot of dividing lines in each of our lives. Some lines need to be drawn, but ones we don’t need to draw are those that divide us from others of like minds – our “tribe”, if you will. Let’s look at people looking to follow…
Little By Little Nobody Noticed
When I was a child, I wanted my hair cut, but my dad wouldn’t let me. He thought little girls should all have long hair. But my mother understood, and she agreed to cut just a little bit off each week until it was shorter. For a long time, my father never noticed. The world…