Tag: life in general
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Mental Health Wednesday January 2026
This winter break was . . . A thing. A whole thing. Not a fun thing, either. Like an overly complicated thing that no matter how you try to fix it, it’s just going to continue to make your life difficult, but you can’t throw it away, because it is required, for some reason. It…
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The Word for 2026
This past year has been. . . challenging. Not impossible, not crashing out, just challenging. I did not accomplish as much as I wanted for 2025, but that’s par for the course. 2025’s word was “Try.” I feel I did that. I tried and failed and tried again, learned something, tried again, actually succeeded; tried…
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Mental Health Wednesday December 2025
This has been a rough year for me. And my family, too, but this blog is about me, so let’s just focus on that. There have been a number of doctor appointments, a couple-three work problems, a layoff, a few other disappointments and scares. All of which ticked my anxiety a little higher, with each…
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Mental Health Wednesday November 2025 (2)
It wasn’t that long ago that I could speed read a book and catch even the smallest details. Now, I have to slowly read a paragraph, several times, often whispering the words so I also hear what I’m reading, to grasp the message and details. It’s a struggle to read a whole paragraph sometimes. My…