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Bloganuary prompt – Jan 4
What is a treasure that’s been lost? I worry about skilled trades going away. Maybe some have been lost already (probably, right?) but there are a lot of culturally important skills that really only can be learned and understood by doing them, and if there’s no one left who knows how to do them, they…
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Bloganuary prompt Jan 3
What is the earliest memory you have? Walking on a wet day down the pavement near our house in Hale, running my hand along the brick wall, and stopping touching the wall when the holly bushes appear, because they’re prickly. I can remember going to school, and sitting on the floor of a classroom cross-legged.…
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Bloganuary prompt – Jan 2
How are you brave? I don’t like this prompt – it’s begging the question. I have no idea if this is a true story, but I don’t think that matters. I think what does matter is the idea of being a kind person. Being kind when it’s free and easy for you to do, and…
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Bloganuary prompt – Jan 1
What is something you want to achieve this year? I think of myself as not particularly ambitious, which is true and also not quite correct. The true part is that I’m not inclined to glory. I don’t need to get the credit or be well-known, or any of that (I do thrive on validation, however).…
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Reading
I realize I just blogged about reading this year, but here we are again. After I picked up Cloud Cuckoo Land at the airport Friday, I really thought, “this is what I will snack on all the rest of the year. As I lie around relaxing with the fam, I’ll be reading this.” But I…
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A year of murder
Technically, the murders started late last year, at least for me, with Roger Ackroyd and nine odious and unlucky people trapped with a sociopath (also odious) on an island. Yesterday, I went to La Guardia at 12:30pm to catch a plane. Eight hours later and from a different terminal, I flew out (to the wrong…
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Notes
I have several ways I like to take notes while I work, and my methodology is pretty much non-existent. I use whichever depending on what feels right. My three ways of taking notes are: With Simplenote and my notebook, I expect those to be part of the record. I keep them – I don’t throw…
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A little bit stats, a little bit flowers
Every year on your anniversary date, HR sends an email to you to give you some stats from the last year. Since I wrote my One Decade post the day before my actual anniversary, I didn’t have the email. Now I do, and these are my stats: Last year, these were my stats: While I…
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One Decade
On Saturday, Dec 3 2022, I will have been with Automattic for ten years – a full decade. This is the only job any of my kids remember me having (the twins had just turned one when I accepted my job offer). The twins did think my former boss was Wapuu, though, when I told…
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