Election 2020: An Emotional Rollercoaster

Where do I even start?  So much has been written since Election Day that there probably isn’t much I can contribute that you can’t search out on Google yourself.  I think for me, what has impacted me the most was how much this one hurt. I thought when Trump was first elected, that that would …

The End of One Thing…The Beginning of Another?

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about endings and beginnings. This pandemic has ended one part of our lives — where we live happy and ignorant of what is actually happening around us — but it has created a new, and some would argue, better life for all of us. One where we are more …

Nazi’s, Donuts and Facebook … Oh My!

Facebook is a cesspool. Did you know that? I knew that, but I knew it somewhere in the back of my mind, some place where I didn’t really consider it much, but it always lurked there. In other words, logically I knew Facebook (and social media) is a cesspool of trolls and cruelty, but I …

Thoughts From a Pandemic

I’m in Rhode Island, and while we’re aren’t being ordered (yet anyway) to shelter in place, nor am I quarantined, I am doing my best to stay home and avoid social situations. As an introvert, I’ve been training for this my entire life. Seriously though, I have ranged between overwhelming anxiety and a feeling normalcy …