Once again, I have not been as attentive to my blog, and for that I’m sorry. Mostly because instead of musings, my mind has been swimming with new information as I relearn how to do a job I performed for over six years, but in a new jurisdiction. (That and figuring out my new schedule now that I can’t go grocery shopping Friday mornings since I have to be at work again. Gah, I miss my Fridays…) It’s complicated, messy, sifting between what I know—i. e. what is habit—and what is new; ...
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WOMS: The City of Brass
Please note: this post may contain affiliate links for products I recommend. If you make a purchase through these links, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a small commission. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. I’ll be honest with y’all: I almost didn’t write this post. The fact it’s published at all is a miracle. My new job has been one of the levels of Dante’s Inferno—or hell. It leaves me so stressed and exhausted by the time I come home, I have little ...
What’s Next?
At the time of writing this, I’ll be starting a new job tomorrow. My first full-time one since last November. Since this won’t be published until Wednesday, for my dear readers, for you, it’s yesterday. The forecast tomorrow is heavy rain. Right now, at 18:00, we’re even under a tornado warning. If that isn’t poetic irony, I don’t know what is. Of course, my husband, being the loving support he is, commented, “Yes, Hashem is also upset you’re starting a new job tomorrow, so He ...
How Long?
There was a shooting—another; again—at a school yesterday. An elementary school. Elementary. I’m from Texas, where it took place. My family still lives there. I have a niece in second grade. It could have been her school. It should not be any school. I am done. I am done with COVID, now monkey pox, with my family being diagnosed with chronic health problems. I am done with governments that do not care about their citizens, but choose to aggrandize their own agendas. I am done ...
Change Your Stars
Please note: this post may contain affiliate links for products I recommend. If you make a purchase through these links, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a small commission. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. At the time of writing this, I just finished reading The Time Traveler's Wife for the first time within the past hour. No, I haven't gotten the weeks mixed up. This isn't a review of the book; more a reflection of myself, of what the book highlighted ...