Manure Happens
Second round of layoffs today at work. The first round was in December, not that long ago. So far I’ve dodged the bullet.
Second round of layoffs today at work. The first round was in December, not that long ago. So far I’ve dodged the bullet.
I was reading a post by Theodora Goss called “Going for Real,” a few weeks ago. It was a personal take on the desire for real-life experiences versus the enjoyment of video games. I don’t know how savvy it is to quote from a comment on someone else’s blog but this paragraph is too wonderful not…
The Sunday after the wedding, Steve and I headed to Crater Lake. I’d seen photos of the lake and read about it and wanted to see the enormity of it for myself. At the first place we stopped, the temperature on the car’s dashboard was showing 38 degrees F. Oh, well, we’d already managed that the day before. No big deal…
Last night, Lynn and I met up at Truffles and Tortes in downtown Anoka to have some desert and catch up on things. I had the scrumptious Chocolate Nirvana and coffee. While Lynn had a Chocolate Torte and tea. Lynn brought her art journal to show me the artwork she made in a class at…
Ah yes, drought… I survived February. But this papery-thinness is how it left me.
Sometimes we balk at embarking on an enterprise because we’re afraid of being alone. We feel comfortable with the tribe around us; it makes us nervous going off into the woods on our own. ~ Steven Pressfield, “the War of Art” I’ve been home from my vacation/writing retreat and back to my usual routine for…
For anyone who’d prefer to listen to the post, I’ve included an audio recording (9:21). I tried to outrun it. Even attempted to dive under the thing. And yet the wave caught me, a linebacker hitting from the side. She took me down and dragged me across the course sand. A few blue and yellow…
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I’m praying too…and I’m glad you survived round two!
Glad to hear you’re not one of the axed folk….we’ve been lucky, so far, and haven’t had to deal with layoffs. We’ve had a few people fired for missing too much work, or violating store policies, so they’ve dealt with the reduction in hours that way rather than through layoffs. I can imagine how worrisome and scary that must be.