After two weeks healing myself and my girls up from COVID, I’m logging back on to work life. Not on-site just yet; gotta solve this cough problem. L Back to front? It basically means, my intent to start work again with a fresh, healthier, balanced approach, retaining my sense of self and priority. My goal? …
Month: April 2022
My First Rock n Roll Love Affair: Y & T
I was just fourteen. I loved other music before this band. But this was the first band I took proper fan ownership of. 1981. My first show. Actually the night before my fourteenth birthday. From then until today, 41.07 years now, certain Y & T songs, They take me back decades, They light the fire, …
Crawling Out Of COVID
Preface. My daughters and I have had mild to moderate COVID, nothing like life-threatening, etc.; but then, we didn’t know how it would go up front. Whatever the severity, it’s been a two week disruption on our lives. Near two weeks in, we’re all coming out of the main stint of the illness; it feels …
Consider The Wee Hours
In the Wee Hours, early morning, just after Midnight, consideration of my case, Bolt Awake after a few hours of sleep, know I need more for this COVID Bout, Sleep, rest at least, paramount to self-care, demanded to heal up, get passed this strange time, Unsure, never been here before, my girls, family never been …
Dad Cure: Mind Stack
My daughter was thinking about a story we told at dinner; the story, it was a little scary, though not graphic, it was enough to pop into her mind again as she was going to bed. We had also talked about cinnamon rolls for breakfast, a new box I brought home from the store earlier …
Cravings
I think they happen at various times, when we’ve not had something for a long time, something we really like, or liked, sometimes it hasn’t even been that long. Second week of COVID Quarantine, several things rush into my mind, early morning, just as the light appears, Pasta with chopped kale and parmesan, hot tea, …
Get Humble
We’re all replaceable, That’s a good life lesson to embrace, even as we strive to excel in our own way, bringing our unique energy and talent to what ever pursuit we choose. Especially in the professional space, There’s pretty well always someone who can do the job as well or even better then we, Yep, …
A Promise to My Daughters
The following was written by retired SEAL Master Chief Jason Gardner. He teaches leadership now in the civilian world. He also is the father of three, including one daughter. I’m no Navy SEAL, retired or otherwise. But I do want these things he lists for his daughter, I want them for my girls too. And …
COVID-19: Sick House
Dug in for the week, per protocol, quarantine, don’t co-mingle. Might be into two weeks. Suck it up. Kept my germs to myself. Until our older daughter tested positive; then number two daughter tested positive; then we shared the Sick House, giving each other space as best we could. Into the second week now, waiting …
COVID-19 : More Ebb
COVID Ward 2541 (my house number), Day 6. I tested positive, then one daughter, then the other, A couple days of slowing things way down, attending to immediate symptoms, Days past, normal drifts away, routine, expectations, time, Like the tide ebbs, much of normal does too, Waiting for the illness to recede, Waiting for normal …
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