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Bears, Beets, Battlestar Galactica...Covid, Cough, Caring for others

      So I haven't shared this with the public yet, but after 370 days of living during the Covid-19 pandemic and daily dealing with the public (more on that in a bit), I finally became sick and tested positive for the virus on March 20.  I would like to think that in general, Covid-19 took it fairly easy on me.  I suffered from a pretty rough sounding and at times painful cough.  I never had a fever but did experience chills and body aches.  I had head congestion originally that moved into my chest, hence the eventual painful coughing that made my chest and abdominal muscles (the few I have ;-) very sore.  I had a complete loss of energy and stamina to do much more than walk across the room for several days.  It was not fun and is seriously not something I want anyone else to have to deal with (insert PSA for getting the vaccine and wearing your mask and social distancing in public...and that is not a political statement, just a caring for m...
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Long time, no see...

      So...its been a minute since I last posted, sorry about that if you were concerned.  Life has just been life. hectic, busy, etc.  My kids are now 20, 17, and 7, and that alone is enough to make me tired,  but add work and extra-curricular, preparing my second to head off to college and my oldest to continue with college, at home or at school...mix in an energetic 1st grader who thinks she's a teenager and life is moving at the speed of  light.  So, needless to say we are busy around here, but that's not what I want to 'chat' about in this post.        2020, huh?  It has been a year of 'all of the above', right?  Challenging and stressful, inspiring and frustrating, historical and new all at the same time.  It has also been an extreme amount of change for everyone.   Changing how we live our daily lives.  How we communicate with each other.  How we get along with each other.  How we work,...

Honesty, clarity, and other ramblings....

    DISCLAIMER:  THIS IS A POST I WROTE SEVERAL MONTHS OR A YEAR AGO AND FAILED TO PUBLISH.  THERE IS NO NEW OR OLD REASON BEHIND WHY I AM NOW PUBLISHING IT OR WHY I FAILED TO PREVIOUSLY PUBLISH IT...I JUST FELT LIKE AFTER EDITING AND FINISHING IT THAT IS WAS READY NOW...ENJOY       Can I be honest?  That's really a rhetorical question...I know I can be honest.  Unfortunately, sometimes I am TOO honest.  Brutal honesty often comes with a heavy price and those close to me have experienced the wrath of my brutal honesty!  To them, I say, 'Sorry'.  But that's not what I want I really want to communicate today...so let me get back on track...next paragraph...      Let me be honest for a few moments.  With my honesty will hopefully come some transparency and what I fear may come from that may be a little bit of surprise, maybe some disappointment, but hopefully more than anything a chance to move forward.  ...

Time

Time.... that unit of measurement that let's us keep track of how long we are doing something or when to meet at a certain place.   To runners, time is everything and discussed in terms of PR (personal record).  It determines if you are getting better or falling behind, if you need to train more or train harder, whether you win, or whether you lose. Some say time has no end and others say that time flies!  Enjoy life while you can because when your time is up, it's all over. In scripture we find this in Ecclesiastes 3, about time: For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:   a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;   a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;   a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;   a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather ston...

Sleepless in Sanford, but still thankful...

It's 10:42 on a Wednesday night. I have now been awake for the last 20+ hours.  While that in it self is really no big deal to most people, especially college students cramming for finals coming up, to me it means I have had a REALLY, REALLY BUSY DAY!  I enjoy my sleep and NEED my sleep.  It keeps me happy (and in turn, my family is happy also), it allows me to be focused and motivated and overall a pretty useful person. You may ask, "Kris, why haven't you slept since very, very early this morning and why are you up late writing this blog if you are tired?"  Well, here is one reason: This is my beautiful one year old, Z.  She decided that 2 am would be a great time to wake up and decide to play this morning.  So I got up and we played.  She then decided it was time to take a bath.  Then she decided it was time to go 'Bye, bye".  That leads me to reason #2 which is below: This is my 11 year old, L.  She had to be in Gainesville thi...