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  • Bloganuary: If You Could Un-Invent Something, What Would It Be?

    Although I’ve often wondered about who and how people have created inventions, I only had two thoughts in answer to this prompt. One was to un-invent nuclear weapons, and the other was to un-invent racism. I don’t know enough about nuclear weapons, but racism has been much on my mind…

  • The Importance of Stories

    I was visiting family last week with my eldest, since she and I both had breaks from our usual daily responsibilities and neither of us had seen visited this family in awhile. Overall it was a peaceful, relaxing visit, but as I waited for our plane to get to the…

  • Bloganuary 9: What is your mission?

    Since the thyroidectomy, I’ve had a good amount of time to consider what my mission, or goals in life, are. This has been a big shift for me, as I’ve needed to slow down in order to heal, and this time period has coincided with not having work – wide…

  • Bloganuary 8: Living a Very Long Life

    My immediate response is that it would be amazing to live a very long life, but then the quantifiers come in. Would it be a long, healthy life? Or are we theorizing about life as it is currently, since becoming a centenarian isn’t such an uncommon or out-of-reach prospect anymore?…