Tinged with Guilt

We took a vacation. Nothing major, but we had to get away. We did it in the safest way we could figure. We took our camping trailer and headed to the Oregon Coast. We brought our own food to reduce the need to interact with people indoors once we got to our destination. We spent a lot of time playing on the beach and hiking. It was vacation hermit-crab-style. We did one indoor thing; we watched…

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Above the fog

I turned forty in August 2020. This midlife milestone caused a bit of a riptide of self-evaluation. The natural season of personal investigation was paired with the rare living conditions dictated by a global pandemic. The months leading up to my birthday were spent in Covid lockdowns confined to the house with my four children who were supposed to be distance learning. My husband, a school superintendent, was considered essential and spent 3 months in his…

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