The summer before I started my first year at the University of Michigan, my mom told me (warned me?) “Please don’t become a liberal.” At the time, I suppose I considered myself a moderate-conservative Christian. Of course, I was eighteen, and who knows who they are at that age? I knew I was open-minded and wanted to be in a diverse environment, and I wasn’t opposed to the fact I had been accepted to what many considered a school which getting into was difficult.
Off I went from West Michigan to Ann Arbor, and, lo and behold, five years later (yes, five years – don’t judge), I left the University of Michigan proclaiming myself a liberal. I don’t think I More
God has a good sense of humor, doesn’t she? (See what I did there? Gonna get everyone all fired up). Last week, I shared that my biggest wish for this school year was to sleep.
And sleep I did. For about 3 days straight. Pneumonia, folks. I don’t recommend it. God is hilarious.
Okay, enough about me.
Do you remember where you were on 9/11? I was working at a condo reservation company called Vacation Values, sitting at my desk, when one of my coworkers came in and told us what was happening. She heard it on the radio on her way in to work. I didn’t believe her. I went to my dad’s office, which was one floor below ours. He had a TV in his conference room. I hoped I would see that it wasn’t true. I wish I didn’t turn it on and watch, but I did. Didn’t we all? It was horrifying seeing people, on live TV, jumping from the towers to their deaths. I will never forget that.
The days and weeks following were sad and confusing, but it was the only time I felt like everyone in our country was together. No one was fighting about this. Everyone was helping, praying, caring.
Let’s remember that. We all had our differences, but somehow we managed to come together.
I don’t have much else to say about that, but I thought this video was a fantastic way to remember the people who came together, in the midst of the confusion, when no one even knew what was happening yet, and helped. Because that’s what they had to do.
Going to get some more shut-eye now. Take care everyone, and remember to remember.
As I searched Pinterest tonight for “writing prompts for bloggers” (because you don’t ALWAYS want to hear about me being depressed and crazy, right?), I came across this:
Write On: August Blogging Prompts
Not quite my blogging “genre,” but let’s try it. And yes, I know it’s September and not August. Just roll with it.
1. Tips for getting organized for the new school year
Fret and worry.
Get mad at Pinterest for making me feel like a loser mom because I don’t cut my kid’s fruit into various shapes and skewer them together in ROY.G.BIV order, or create a masterpiece in a Bento Box.
Go to psychiatrist, obtain new prescription to stabilize mood.
(Reality check: My husband would shake his head and laugh, because all the above are true AND I also went to great lengths to prepare More
(If you’re new to The Lorix Chronicles, you may want to read this first.)
It’s been a while, hasn’t it? In fact, it’s been over three years since I’ve written a blog post. Life got busy, and I stopped writing. And by “life got busy,” I mean life is always busy, always a bit crazy. I realized (again!) that even though life is busy and crazy, I need to write. The internet even told me that’s the career I’m meant for. How do I argue with that?
So I will write. I might even finish the novel (and I use that term loosely) I’m working on. I took a 3-year hiatus from that too.
I felt the need to write again because it’s cathartic for me, and I need something cathartic in my life right now. See, I’m still depressed. Not everyday for the last three years kind of depressed, but I have my moments. They last a week, or a month, or a couple months. I have been diagnosed with chronic depression. I told some friends from my old PPD group that I feel like I was lied to. It didn’t get better! Of course, in reality, it has gotten better, but when I spiral down More
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,500 times in 2013. If it were a cable car, it would take about 25 trips to carry that many people.
So…about 1800 people viewed my blog this year. And I have had no new posts.
Maybe it’s time I get back to writing, huh?
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner can carry about 250 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,800 times in 2012. If it were a Dreamliner, it would take about 7 trips to carry that many people.
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