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#MoreJoy – Day 26 of 31 – Tootsie rolls

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October 27 2021

Okay, I confess, I bought some Hallowe’en candy and I have no intention of giving it out. It’s just for me. Andrea and Jacob don’t like it, it’s just for me. I like almost everything about Tootsie rolls. Even the name is fun to say. Okay, fine, I’ll agree that if they’re old and stale, they’re not much fun. But brand new? Gooey? Malleable? Soft enough to NOT rip out my teeth when I bite into them? How could that not bring me #MoreJoy? Maybe too much joy. Having them accessible during work hours is NOT healthy. Joyful, but not … Continue reading →

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#MoreJoy – Day 25 of 31 – Food pickup

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October 26 2021

Early on in the pandemic, I went out to the grocery store and kept doing my shopping the normal way. Or what was at least normal then. In person, wandering the aisles. Sometimes being surprised to find some stuff in stock that should have been more difficult (fruit, dairy, bread) while others were empty shelves (toilet paper, the cliché). But I was having a conversation with a social worker that I seek counsel from professionally from time to time, and she mentioned that her husband had “adapted” to the new reality and was doing it all online with local pickup. … Continue reading →

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#MoreJoy – Day 17-24 of 31 – Comfort TV

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October 25 2021

I’m a bit behind again on my posting, and I wanted to write about a bunch of stuff that I have been “enjoying” partly as a distraction and partly just because I enjoy serialized storytelling. I’ve mentioned this before that each fall I try to watch every new show that comes out that has any chance of garnering my interest, and some that aren’t even close, just to review the premieres. I’ve seen 29 premieres since January, and that is split pretty evenly between last spring and this fall. I’ve reviewed them all, but very few have made it through … Continue reading →

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#MoreJoy – Day 16 of 31 – Car seats?

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October 21 2021

I’m running a bit behind on my #MoreJoy series, and today’s is a bit puzzling, I admit. How could a car seat bring joy? Jacob’s first car seat was the one we brought him home in. For many people, that transition is simply about coming home. For us? It was about escaping the NICU. And there was drama involved…we didn’t think he would be able to come home that day because he had refluxed during the night, I saw that the nurses had not used the special nipples he was supposed to use, and if we weren’t going to be … Continue reading →

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#MoreJoy – Day 10-15 of 31 – Word play in lyrics

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October 15 2021

If my brain is going a mile a minute, I can frequently break the cycle with music. But it has to be more than simple background music, I need something almost “meta” about the song that pulls me out of the song and makes me think about the writing, or admire the lyricist’s choice of phrasing. Harry Chapin’s songs from the 70s are almost all stories, from Cats in the Cradle to Taxi, so there’s lots of things in them that get me thinking about the backstory or the “other” elements that you could fill in if you were to … Continue reading →

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