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Tornado Season 24
It’s tornado season in South Central Wisconsin and for the first time that I remember since Janesville became my hometown we had a strike within the city limits. Our family lives several miles away but the storm still dumped a lot of water into our basement. My mother-in-law lives a few blocks from ground zero…
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Introversion vs. Extroversion
I was raised within a duality paradigm. The world divided into binary categories: male or female, good or evil, right or wrong, black or white, introvert or extrovert. But that paradigm always, always, always failed to capture the complex reality that surrounded me. Duality is an illusion we use to simplify our reality. I recently…
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Sleep as Self-care
The way I handle stress and pain is to sleep it off. Sometimes that’s four hours. Sometimes that’s twenty hours. The world knocks me down, and I stay down until I’m feeling a little more awesome.
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Waste of Time
How do you waste the most time every day? I spend way too much time on Facebook. It is one of my principal outlets to keep in touch with family and friends. I promote my blogs and digital art on the platform. But I also spend at least an hour or two a day doomscrolling.…
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Grandma’s Sugar Cream Pies
Which food, when you eat it, instantly transports you to childhood? I love a good sugar cream pie mostly out of the sake of nostalgia. They remind me of my grandma’s love. The family has the recipe and a few people have even tried to make one for me. There was just something about my…
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An Unknown Knight
Who is your favorite historical figure? There are lots of people that have influenced my life with their historical examples. But I’m not going to pick a prophet or a king. That would be too easy. I’m going to pick a man that I don’t even know the name of. When I visited Germany I…
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My First Crush
Write about your first crush. I started crushing on girls when I was very young. Probably first or second grade. I have no idea who that would be. It’s not like I talked to anyone about it. I certainly wasn’t the kind of boy to approach a girl I felt affection for. At least not…
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Touristy
I am not much of a traveler. I’ve got responsibilities at home. I need to stay right here in Wisconsin. If I did travel the two places that I would like to see are Gaudi’s La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona because of the Alan Parson’s Project song and the Khajuraho temples in India dedicated to…
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Being Weird
What’s your favorite thing about yourself? Every person is unique and special. I am also strange and critical. My level of weirdness is higher than most people and I like it that way. There’s a meme that goes around once in a while where a daughter asks her mom, “What is normal?” The mom responds…
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No Retirement
How do you want to retire? I want to be doing something useful for the rest of my life. Retiring and doing nothing for years until I die sounds awful. I hope I can always be engaged in meaningful work.
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