Wellbeing

Do you know what day it is?

No, I’m not talking about the beginning of the end for the indigenous people of this hemisphere, or the man credited with getting the party started. (Bad sarcasm. BAD!) I’m asking from the perspective of a man who lost track of time last week. I had a nasty little stomach virus with the power to fiddle with the space-time continuum. There was a great disturbance in the force… as…
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Wellbeing

I'm shocked!

I’m shocked I tells ya! Shocked! And if iOS 8 auto-corrects my slang one more time I’m gonna give it a heave. I talk about depression a fair bit, especially here, so you can imagine what my self image is like. Well, today someone called me “happy-go-lucky.” Let me tell you – that doesn’t fit my self image. I think I mentioned trying to be positive in one of my…
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Wellbeing

This is your punishment

You’ve done it to yourself. I warned you. When I bid my (temporary) farewell to Facebook, I said you could punish yourself by visiting my blog… and here you are! Well, I’m glad you’re here, no matter what it says about you. Wow! Insulting the readers right off the bat! Way to draw ‘em in John! You know I kid because I love, right? Still reading? Here’s a question…
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Important Stuff

Christine Eldin

If you’re human, someone’s death touches you differently when it’s someone who’s crossed your path. Chris Eldin and I were not friends, and if asked before her passing, she would probably not recognize my name. But for those of you who do know me, that shouldn’t be a big surprise – I tend to be more of a lurker than contributor. However, I did know of Chris and…
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Wellbeing

To my friends on Facebook

I haven’t been around in a while and I won’t be. I won’t say never but it may be a long time. You may be familiar with the Facebook scandal a few months back, regarding social research conducted on a large number of accounts (i.e. us). I’m not going to rehash the case for or against Facebook and it’s alleged right to conduct such research. I haven’t re-read the…
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Kitchen SinkWellbeing

You don't want to read this

I don’t want to write this post. I don’t feel like doing much of anything these days. Some of the time I try to put on a mask of good humor but it’s hard. Some folks are better at masking their depression. Some can keep it up longer or be more convincing. I’m neither. Depression has been with me almost as long as I can remember. It’s not always active, like a cancer…
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Kitchen Sink

The case against math

It’s a great day for a blog post! I’m not particularly depressed at the moment and I’m in the mood for a little nonsense – which as we all know are the perfect ingredients for a little writing. I was looking at someone’s date of birth (something that comes up often in my line of work) and noted the year: 1994. My imagination stepped back in time. I lived in Orlando…
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Wellbeing

The door

The front door is where it all began every day. Not to take anything away from my old job, but when I think of home, the day begins when I return from work. In recent years I never quite knew what I was getting into until I got there, stood in front of our door, and opened it. Sometimes what lay within was drown out by sounds outdoors – the weather, the tree blowing in the wind, children…
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Important Stuff

John moves on

An open letter to my coworkers at the Largo CSE office: It’s Sunday morning, December 29th, and I’m sitting in my new home in Orlando. We’re mid-move and I’ll be driving back to Dunedin this afternoon for one more week of work in Largo, but I’m already feeling nostalgic. I drove past a vacant building this morning. It used to house a non-profit job training program…
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Family and FriendsWellbeing

I try

Hi, my name is John and I haven’t posted anything of substance in a year or more. I have a good thing not going here, so why start now? This is a couch and you are my therapist – so be warned. After a few false starts, we’re really moving. Cheryl starts a new job in Orlando on Friday, we’re moving much of our furniture after Christmas (to the guest wing of my sister and…
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