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    Sky-High Adventures in Social Distancing

    September 30, 2020 /No Comments

    Dropping my sons at DFW during COVID. The airport was a ghost town. The ex texted me an hour after the boys already had — clearly expecting to start a fight. Didn't work.

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    COVID Diaries Day 200 – New Habits, New Normal?

    September 29, 2020 /No Comments

    What things do I wish that would stick around from the COVID experience? I came across this question on Twitter and it got me thinking. The comments, as expected, were divided between appreciation for the evolved human response to a pandemic, to the ignorant disdain for anything that required accepting any personal responsibility in preventing the spread of the virus. 

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    More Adventures in Social Distancing

    August 29, 2020 /No Comments

    As the pandemic progresses, my state is reopening businesses in stages. I don’t know how they decide what can reopen when, or more importantly, why? But I have tamped down my panic and gone out while still exhibiting caution. It has been an experience in otherworldly interaction.

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    Demotivate Twins, Activate

    August 4, 2020 /No Comments

    A friend was telling me how he has changed his work out routine in the post pandemic era. This spawned a discussion on everyone’s source for motivation when it almost feels as if there is no point. My reply was: what motivation?

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    Ennui Creeps In – Every Day is Exactly the Same

    July 19, 2020 /No Comments

    Every day I drive to work, do my job, then drive home. Wash, rinse, and repeat. Every day feels exactly the same. It is not an unhappy situation, and I am not even sure if I should fight the wave of creeping ennui. But I worry that I am going to snap.

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