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 This blog went into hibernation upon my entrance into motherhood. Life got really chaotic, I closed my old checking account and never even realized that I’d let my domain lapse. It was just a blog— but this ole blog has been a reference for my life for many years. Also, for over a year my web domain pointed to a Chinese web store. I guess the domain wasn’t lucrative because their payment also lapsed and I got it back. Ha! So, where am I? Where have I been? I gave birth to my my firstborn babe in 2019 (the Year of the Firstborn), returned to my job in the autumn, and my husband became a full-time parent. My baby refused a bottle, so my husband walked to my office at least twice a day so I could breastfeed the babe and I’d bike home on my lunch breaks. The pandemic struck in 2020 and our world sort of shut down— I immediately moved to remote work and our social connections all paused, except for our amazing neighbors.  In spring 2020 I contacted a church that owns properties in our neig

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