Negative ruminations

Now that’s a heck of a title, heh? Just reaches out and slaps you across the face.
I mostly have a rosy outlook on my upcoming changes, but there are some negative thoughts pushing around the positive ones, like bullies on a school playground. Let’s see if exposing them reduces their power. (If I extended the metaphor, [...]

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New career – take 2

Ok- time to put it on the table: I have always wanted to be a writer… for a living. I assumed I would be a writer, in fact.
It just seemed that other jobs came along instead.
I have a friend who is tackling getting published very aggressively, yet he cannot get published. So, I am very [...]

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New career – take 1

My sister and my nephew called and suggested some new career choices. They are deliberately off-the-wall.

Weaver. This is my sister’s suggestion (apparently I remind her of someone who is a weaver). How do people make a living doing a craft? I actually like this suggestion.
Deep-sea fisherman. This is my nephew’s suggestion (which he acknowledged has [...]

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Invest in your happiness

I ran across this article. Let’s see how I am doing on the happiness-investment meter:

Connection to other people, through relationships and/or community.
Free time to enjoy life (long hours spent working and commuting being a major source of stress and unhappiness).
Exploring yourself or building your skills and strengths.
Good health.
Financial sanity (i.e. getting out of debt and [...]

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Disclaimer

If you have stumbled upon this blog… this is my attempt to evaluate my options after a number of life changes.
To recap:

My father’s death prompted my husband and I to move close to my mother (rural South Dakota).
Meanwhile, my husband had also decided it was time to start over, so is in the middle of [...]

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