Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Week Five: Easter Drives
“How long are you planning to stick around?” “For-ev-er,” quoted Rona. “I don’t appreciate that,” I mumbled. “I don’t care.” “That is evident. Avada Kedavra,” I yelled. “Muggle,” it laughed. “Touche.” The days seem like they go by so quickly, but the weeks are slow. This morning I woke up and checked my phone to…
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Week Four: We Can’t Take Anymore…
…”Not by the hair on my chinny-chin-chin,” said Rona with a sinister smile. The world cried as Rona huffed and puffed and blew the Earth down. As I mentioned in my last post, week three was really difficult. So far, week four has been a little better, but I also think it’s because I’m starting…
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Into Week Two and Three
I’m uninspired today, but I’m writing anyway because sometimes that’s what you have to do to get yourself out of a writing rut. Maybe it’s because all of my brain power has been going into figuring out educational activities for the kids. Week two flew by so quickly that by Friday, Mr. WTF had to…
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Week One Is Done!
It’s been a full week since the SF Bay Area shelter-in-place mandate went into effect. It feels like so much longer because we were already starting to stay home before it became an official order, but we’re all doing fine. Ish. Fine-ish. As I see the news and hear from friends and family in other…
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Love the Little Things
I started this post last week when it was still sunny and sheltering in place was merely a suggestion. It’s only our first official day of the mandate, but we’ve been staying home as much as we can so it doesn’t feel like it’s only been a few hours. The original sentiment of this post…
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That Giddy Feeling
You know the giddy feeling you get when something new happens? You feel a little like you want to squeal and your insides want to burst with excitement. You want to shout from the rooftops for everyone to hear and join in on your delight. Happy dancing becomes a real thing and you cease to…
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Up, Up and Away
When the kids were young, we took them to the Buchanan Field municipal airport often to let them run around and watch all the propeller planes practice their takeoffs and landings. It’s a free, entertaining place for them to play that’s not a regular playground and is fenced in so we didn’t have to worry…
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The End of an Era
On this week’s episode of Packing With Allison: wedding items. Specifically, the nerdy ones. These kinds of rediscoveries are always fun, especially when they’re not child related. Mr. WTF and I, like so many other parents, get caught up in the happenings of our children and often forget what it was like before kids. We…
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Here Comes the Sun
…Doo-doo-doo-doo, here comes the sun. As Mr. WTF disembarked his early flight to Bend yesterday, he texted me that the current temperature was 19 degrees. He said, “It doesn’t feel that cold.” …Sure, Babe. You go on and keep telling me how the winters aren’t so bad. In all reality, they’re not. The memories of…
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Make Time
I often wonder if I have enough to write about to sustain a blog. Sure, we do plenty of things as a family, but are any of them blog worthy? Sitting on the sofa cuddling, blog worthy? Probably not. So many things in our lives are already shared on Instagram stories and posts that there’s…
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