Category: sabbatical
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2020 Sabbatical Summary
Another selfish post. I’m writing it as a reminder to me so I remember what I learned over this sabbatical time. Note to self: It’s not optimal to plan sabbatical during a Covid-19 outbreak. It was the worst of times and the best of times (yes, I know I did that quote in reverse —…
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Young Relatives Meeting
One of the silly things about our lock-down is that my earring holes keep trying to close. This is odd to me since I regularly work from home and wouldn’t think I would be putting in earrings any less. Ah well. As Chris and I drove down the road I mentioned that the last time…
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Balance Rock
Things are starting to get better in my world. I’m done whinging 🙂 My colleague and friend is also on sabbatical, and he came to visit us in Massachusetts. We had several great days of cooking, movies, yakking, and hiking. My daughter-in-law, Lauren, had told me about https://www.alltrails.com/ a few years ago so we opened…
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A Pain in the Neck
I wrote about initial plans for sabbatical a bit ago. Those did not work thanks to Covid. Two weeks into Plan B, I’m learning that perhaps my lesson of the time off is to step back and not plan and let life happen. Every idea that flitted through my mind as a great thing to…
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Lazy Days of June
Highlights during the past few weeks: The final patch of snow melted June 6, and I got to see the change. Summer activities are going to happen, and I get to see the prep for the June 27th opening of resort activities. My friend Gail visited. We walked and talked and enjoyed being the first…
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A Fresh Start
Sabbatical doesn’t start until Monday. However, I pushed my four day/10-hour-a-day work week into the beginning of this one, and now I am on weekend then sabbatical. So, technically completely off. I thought I would have a nice transition of a few days casually checking into the channels, but I think I needed this break…