I know I’ve mentioned here before that sometimes I have days where I wake up with a lingering sense of unease or impending doom. When that happens, it is very hard to do much that takes any level of brain power. Today is one of those days. I woke up with a lingering anxiety. It’s … More A General Sense of Unease
I knew it was coming. I knew online school would lead to the end of the snow day. New York schools have no announced that there will be no snow days. Snow days will now be remote learning days. I assume other school systems will do the same. I’ve written multiple times about snow days … More In Defense of Rest
I discuss my struggle to write, read and even watch some TV right now. … More Brain Block
When anxiety lies and tells me no one wants to read my blog so I should just give up. … More Blogging and Anxiety
Timehop reminded me that one year ago today I wrote some reflections from isolation after one month of lockdown. I decided to reflect today on the same topics as I’m one week away from my second dose of the vaccine. Isolation is not new for me – this remains true. I didn’t go out a … More A Look Back at My Isolation Reflections
Yesterday, my therapist gave me a list of ways you can deal with distressing emotions until they pass. I was on board for al of them but one. Luckily, my therapist agreed. This way was comparison. There were two different types of comparison. One is to compare it to a time when you were in … More On Comparative Suffering
My daughter was home for a few days last week. When she is home my sleep schedule gets messed up. She stays up late and sleeps in. I stay up later with her when she is home. I doze off and on while she and my wife watch The Great British Baking Show. I go … More Monday Morning Sleep Deprived Tater
I’m actually a day late. Yesterday was officially one year from the first day I was home instead of at work. My isolation will last a bit longer. I still have no idea when the Maryland governor will ever move us from phase 1 in vaccinations. At this rate we will still be in phase … More One Year Later a Look Back
This is the topic I planned to write about when life interrupted on Thursday. I should have written it later that day anyway and scheduled it for today while it was fresh in my mind. If you read my blog regularly you would know that I scheduled a vaccine appointment thinking the appointments were available … More On Guilt
Many of my friends and family in Kentucky have started getting vaccinated recently. Kentucky has opened up vaccine eligibility to people with underlying health conditions. I’m happy for my friends and family, but I am jealous that I am not able to be vaccinated. Here in the state of Maryland you still can’t get the … More When Vaccine Thoughts Consume Me
