formerly Flotsam and Jetsam — Thoughts that float through my head like so much detritus
I am drawn to pulling myself out of this doom-loop this year, as the next step in healing from burnout. Shifting my media intake from short form scrolling to reading may be enough to help me reconfigure my free time/me time into something more fulfiling. Continue Reading →
Throughout my life, I have spent a lot of time alone. As an introvert, alone time is how I recharge my social battery. I use the time to absorb, reflect, and process things. I also use the time to learn, to create, and to consume media (and food! LOL). Like most people, I have spent MORE time alone than I wanted since the spring of 2020. In that time, I have experienced loneliness. Continue Reading →
While I may casually refer to 2021 as a “dumpster fire” or similar, it wasn’t really that bad for me, personally. Globally? Still a dumpster fire. My anxiety spikes any Continue Reading →
OK so… it’s been a LOT of months since I posted here. I still have work to do in the back end and find the time to fix some of Continue Reading →
So I was tagged in one of those “post one a day for X days of Y that influenced you” — usually 5 or 7 or 10 books/bands/albums/films. I got Continue Reading →
I’ve been working from home for about a month now (four weeks tomorrow) and while I talked a big game about stuff I was hoping to do, I thought I’d Continue Reading →
In light of the many canceled events, closed gathering spaces, and the need to socially distance in order to keep those we love safer, we’re all staring down some unexpected Continue Reading →
In January, I took a leap of faith and signed up for The Big Ready, hosted by Mike Vardy, aka The Productivityist. To best describe it, I’ll pull straight from Continue Reading →
When I was in my teens, I presumed life would end with nuclear war (because: Cold War). In my twenties, when it became clear that was less of a threat, Continue Reading →
I launched into the year on unstable footing. I almost immediately broke up with one partner because of politics — and that political situation festered like an ulcerated sore until Continue Reading →