It has officially been an entire year since I logged onto Instagram (cue the cheering!) and my life is much better without it. Have there been times when I wish I could check up on a specific person and see more than the “free” six posts that you get without an account? Sure. But overall, I don’t regret it at all.
I think a lot of us don’t realize until we cut a social media outlet from our lives just how big an effect it can have on our emotions, desires, and time spent scrolling. For some reason, Facebook is manageable to me. I can log in once or twice a day to check the two groups I use regularly, log out and not think about it anymore. Instagram was straight-up addictive to me though. … Read More »
Today’s post is a bit different than usual, but I hope it will help someone in a similar situation.
I wasn’t quite sure how to title this post… “Happy New Year!” sounds a bit out-of-touch, given current events. I live in a first-ring suburb of Minneapolis, so there’s a lot of conflict happening at my doorstep. This isn’t a political blog, but it’s impossible to ignore politics when it reaches into daily life.
The heavens opened up over the Twin Cities yesterday. It rained all afternoon and started up again overnight. I woke up at 5am to rain pounding on the roof, thunder crashing overhead, and… the sound of my baby crying because he had woken up, too. Sigh.