Category: Fierce Creature
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Dutch Lock Down Day Four
Dutch Lock Down Day Four “We’ve sold the house, the car, and all but the essentials and are moving to an undisclosed island on the equator to wait this out.”
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Dutch Lock Down Day Three
All the other days I did this style report, I started out with a ‘joke’ report but, really, I can’t even. Here’s the State of the Leander Union Address, y’all. My partner and I are sharing my office while the three kids have a sort of schedule that includes some academic, creative, and outdoor time…
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Dutch Lock Down Day Two
The partner went out for a cup of sugar. Three hours ago. May never see him again. Girl twin has thrown a coup against her older brother and now rules the house under her tiny thumb with Barbapapa playing #AllTheTime and #AbsolutelyNoBroccoli MAMA. Boy twin refuses to NOT splash in the tub no matter how…
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Dutch Lock Down Day One
I haven’t seen my partner in seventeen hours. I think the natives voted him off the island. Or ate him.
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The Latest Nineteen From The Netherlands
Some of these points are media based. Some are via via. Some are personal. Take everything with a grain of salt. Or some other idiom.
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This Was Going To Be The Post And Then I Got An Ocular Migraine Instead
the Netherlands didn’t have ANY known cases because that’s the cultural norm – if you’re sick in any way, you take paracetamol and wait at least ten days for symptoms to pass. THEN you go to the doctor.
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Tell On Yourself Then Brag About It
While I didn’t get a single thing done on that list of three things that I told on myself yesterday, I made progress.
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FYI – A Is The Oldest Child
There are always ‘puzzles’ and looming #ToDos on the horizon wearing us down and sticking in the back of the brain and it all boils down to not prioritizing it.
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And Then BAM! Have Some Depression
I mean, but, well, it’s kind of understandable. My Grandma Porter died a year ago peacefully in her sleep. She had been in hospice for a few months. It wasn’t a surprise. The memorial was a few days later. I couldn’t make it. I wrote something that my Aunt Julie read for me. Thanks, AJ!…
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New Habits Are Hard
There are a few things I consider more important than taking care of someone else – brushing my teeth, showering, sleeping, health, yin yoga, walking outside, exercise, eating, meditation, plenty of english breakfast tea with a ton of milk, and at least one small round of Swedish, Japanese and Dutch every single day.
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It Pours
I completely didn’t write yesterday. I remembered, but then I forgot. That’s how it works sometimes. But I wrote today and published not one, but TWO articles. #WhenItRains WAIT Did I just find my hashtag?!? Holy shit! ASIDE: I once heard a podcast wherein the person said that they were asked to sift through all…
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There are Many Paths – This is Just One
When choosing to respond to events, both negative or positive, because, yes, it’s a choice – we are not animals driven by instinct, but people with intellect and experience and #CHOICES – when that moment comes, you have infinite choices. Perhaps, yes, you can let emotions drive, resulting in variable reactions and while, yes, I…