I overheard Jordan asking Owen, “do you remember how small the kitchen was? And when you sat here [at the counter stools], and held under the counter, you could feel the nails. And we had a bedroom next to mom and dad.” “And we didn’t even have our own rooms,”chimed…
From last week, confidence is a skill you can learn, right? I realized there are two main factors that affect my self confidence. One is knowing things. Knowledge and the ability to understand and retain information is something that I have always admired. But then also articulating it. That skill…
I was looking through some books gathering dust on my bookshelf. A book about the history of whaling in the Netherlands came to be in my possession while I lived there. It was March, 2001. A client of the veterinarian clinic came to learn that I was staying in the…
I feel like October has been a whirlwind, and I am realizing it’s probably because I have had more social activities this month than the past year put together. As an introvert, I am perfectly comfortable in isolation, in fact, Covid was no big deal in that way. Happy to…
While growing up, my dad talked often of a friend of his, John Kennedy, who had passed away before my sister’s and I could have met him. My dad spoke frequently and fondly of John. They had travelled together to Africa and South America. John grew up in my hometown…
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