Category: Exhaustion
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I spent most of last week fighting sickness. I crashed on Tuesday, missing the gym and most of the work day while languishing in bed or on the couch. My respite gave me enough power to be back at it on Wednesday with just a nap in the afternoon. I’ve been enjoying the golden hour…
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Last week started on the weekend at my parents’ house. If you have been keeping track, it’s the umpteenth time that I’ve been in PA in 2026. According to Merriam-Webster, the first known use of the word umpteenth was in 1892, but I inherited it from the Polish/Ukrainian women in my family. They usually used…
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We are halfway through 2026, and it was a year ago that my babies graduated from high school. Last year at this time was consumed by prom, baseball state playoffs, graduation, the baseball banquet and alumni game, the dance recital, and college prep. This year is so different. Everyone has been asking me this week…
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Last Thursday I flew home from Walt Disney World. It was my 21st trip. My first trip to Disney was in 1988. My parents, my brother, and I took the sleeper train from the Northeast to Florida. At the time, there were only two parks open: Magic Kingdom and Epcot. Six years later, when I…
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I go to the gym almost every morning. It’s a habit I got into during the pandemic. I was going before that, but not every day. When the world shut down, though, my gym immediately started offering classes on Zoom at 7:00 every morning. Every day, I would get up, go downstairs to my basement,…
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It’s event season at work, which means the university schedule is on overdrive and work days spill into nights. I’m used to it; it’s been my life as an educator. But I had set an intention about a month ago to take back some of my time that I have so freely given to my…
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Last week, I traveled to my daughter’s college to watch her dance, which is always amazing. While I was in town, I met up with my high school choir director and a friend to practice a song we’ll be singing in an upcoming alumni pops concert. While I was visiting with my former teacher, she…
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I didn’t think that filling time by sitting on the couch would be fulfilling. But after two weeks of travel, it’s what I needed. I was worn down from days spent moving from hotel rooms to sleeping on a blow up mattress at my brother’s, and after the “two planes, three trains, and an automobile”…
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I’m at my computer at 10:00 at night, sifting through my personal email. Basically this involves deleting “promotions, social, updates, and forums” while managing whatever came into the “primary” tab on my gmail. I appreciate that Google sorts them. I know that I could enable an AI agent to help me do the sifting. But…
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I was moving Christmas trees to be loaded onto a delivery truck when my phone rang. “We decided to head to my parents,” my husband said. My heart did a little flip-flop because I knew that I would not be able to say a proper goodbye to my son, who was heading back to college…
Filling Time: TwinLife Empty-Nesting 