One of the fun parts of coming to Lake Placid is getting to visit the Olympic Center. Inside the Olympic Center is the skating rink built for the 1932 Olympics, which is still used as a practice facility for Olympic hopefuls. The space itself is a testament to a time before the Olympics meant hordes …
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Feels Like Home
I am now halfway through my week in Lake Placid with family. There are 11 of us up here, but the house is large enough that we are not tripping all over each other. Groups regularly excurse in different configurations, which pretty much guarantees opportunities for one:one or small group conversations with pretty much everyone. …
Tap Dancing Across the Keyboard
After taking 2 full days off (something that I haven’t done in way too long), I am back to work this morning. I am still recovering from the sleep deficit I built while staying with my father. And, I have added a layer of physical exhaustion on top of that with an uphill hike yesterday. …
The Night I Had
Last night I got my first taste of being a 24-hour caretaker. Usually my mother is the primary caretaker. I am giving her a break and have taken over for 3 days and 2 nights. My father is incredibly prone to falling. He is also increasingly frail. Even a relatively minor fall could be completely …
Turkey Lurkey
As I mentioned in a earlier post, recently I have been looking at aging through a different lens. Part of it is that I myself, am getting older. Part of it is being witness to may fathers all-too-fast deterioration. I recently met with my doctor to go over my annual bloodwork. If requiring annual bloodwork …
Screen Fatigue
The nature of freelancing is unpredictability. I never really know what my life is going to look like from one week to the next. One week I may be running from client to client. Those weeks I get to spend quality time in my car and in other people’s offices or homes. Other weeks, I …
Grizabella, the Glamour Cat
Yesterday, we went to go see Broadway Rose‘s production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats. Broadway Rose does a great job scaling large, Broadway productions for their smaller stage. I saw their production of Les Miserables, and I was very impressed and enjoyed myself immensely. Their version of Cats was also quite good. Not flawless, but …
Burning (Wo)Man
Yesterday I met with the staff of an organization who’s board I sit on. The weather was gorgeous so they suggested that we meet outdoors. I agreed and found a seat in partial shade. Partial being the operative word here because I came home with a pretty impressive sunburn. I know I have pale skin …
Standing Orders
This is a not-very-good picture of my new standing desk. Colloquially known in Yiddish as a shtender. In its previous life, it was a lectern for a German choir group. They sold it to me as part of their fundraiser garage sale yesterday morning. I have tried the standing desk thing before. I set up …
Today is Brought to you by the Letter "O"
“O” for overwhelmed. I started a new project today and I am on the uphill climb of the learning curve. My brain is kind of full, which is why I am taking a break to write this post. The problem? Writing a post is not giving my brain much of a break. So herein pauses …
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