Category: Home & Life
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Locking down my digital life
Headlines are plentiful about the digital surveillance of our government on immigrants, activists and constitutional observers as part of Operation Metro Surge. We are being watched and the to-do of locking things down can no longer just sit on my to-do list. I’m also someone who is currently unemployed — so I do have more…
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January memo from Minnesota
I have started so many posts in the past 3 weeks that I have abandoned. With the news changing so dramatically day-to-day, and sometimes hour-to-hour, I’ll take a pause mid-post and then, based on the news, my complete mind space has shifted. Like most residents of Minnesota, I’m constantly shifting from fear to anger to…
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I just quit Facebook
Now, before you tell me, I know. They own Instagram, blah, blah, blah. And as frustrated as I am with Zuckerburg’s recent testimony in Congress and the ridiculous policies towards allowing political ads containing outright lies, I’m not going full-out boycott of the empire. I’m just leaving what I consider its most dangerous platform. It’s…
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My own 60 day challenge
I’ve been in a rut. Bad habits, bad coping mechanisms. Loads of stress. You could say some of this started from a personal trauma from almost three years ago now. Lots of healing has had to happen since then. And while the overall trajectory of this path has been positive with a lot of growth,…
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Goals
In the old days of my original blog and fitness journal, the post title “Goals” would have most likely been linked to a big event — a marathon, half ironman, bicycle trek across California. After I found fitness (and lost some weight) in my mid-twenties, I became fitness-obsessed. And as I got stronger and stronger,…
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