Love, Life and Everything

 I find myself in a rut more often than not, especially lately.  It's not like I don't have any ideas.  I do. I have tons.  It's often a matter of trying to figure out which idea to write.  But, sometimes, I really do come up with a blank.  Especially with blogs.  I've broken my commitment to writing this blog far too many times because I just can't think of anything to write about.  So, I'm writing anyway.  It's really the only way to get anything written.  I've heard that many, many, many times in the past.  Just write they say.  Anything, just do it.  Ok, so here I am, just writing.    When I was teaching creative writing to my students, and they would get stuck, I would tell them to draw, doodle, or just trace something.  I would also tell them trace figure 8's with both hands.  To stand up and walk figure 8's in alternating directions.  They told me it always worked.  But, I never told them just to start writing words down and see what happe

         2021... people are approaching this year with such trepidation.  They are afraid to ask how things could possibly get worse, yet at the same time, they aren't overly optimistic. So, how could someone possibly learn something from the worst year ever.  Well, for starters, it probably pales in comparison to some of the worst years in the middle ages, or earlier, especially depending on where you were from.  If you were in a land that got conquered, your people raped, killed, and sold into slavery, never to see your loved ones again - that was probably the worst year ever for you. But, we aren't in those eras.  We are in a modern era with modern technology that allows us to stay interconnected in ways people couldn't during the bubonic plague.  So, what could be learned from a year where we are forced to rely more on that technology, a year where people have to go out with caution, so they don't contract an illness that very little is known about? Yeah, we've