It’s been 10 days since I last posted on this blog. It’s also been 10 days since I wrote anything for My Mitten in Yours. The length of time that has gone by since I worked on Swedish Lessons is too embarrassing to put in numerical form. Bah… It’s weeks like this one (and the […]
How “Where I Was When” has changed
We had a rare moment this week that will be filed in every American’s brain under “Where I Was When.” We don’t get a lot of these. Sure, I remember where I was when hearing certain election results or about particularly horrendous natural disasters, but that was because I cared about them. Not everyone did care about those particular events, or if they did, they might not have felt the same way about them.
But when the world found out that Osama bin Laden had been killed, every American cared, and we all have (more or less) the same opinion: that dude was bad and we’re glad he’s not still at large. This was evident in our collective and immediate harkening back to the last “where I was when” moment, September 11 itself. Naturally this was in part because the two events are inextricably tied, but also because the moments themselves are that last two of their kind in breadth and gravity.
So naturally, I was thinking about “where I was when” I heard about the World Trade Center: on a soccer field on MSU’s campus. And then I thought about where I was on Sunday when I heard about bin Laden: Twitter. And then I realized what a stunning decade we’ve had.
Working From Home: The downside I did not see coming
So here’s an unexpected consequence of working from home: it turns out that Gunshy has developed separation anxiety.
Yup. That’s right, my job has turned my 80-lb mama’s boy into a sad,
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