Around the Corner...
In June I (foolishly) accepted an unacceptable (but thankfully temporary) role at my job. So the time that is usually a glorious, decadent restorative visit to the land of my ancestors "up north" in Michigan. I did still make the pilgrimage and I did, half-heartedly engage in those meaningful traditions, but I also worked endless days solving problems that felt so small and incremental once solved, but the effort to solve them was routinely unpredictable, tedious and complicated. I should not be allowed to complain, and please feel free to leave a thumbs-down-emoji in the comments just to remind me that most people did not get to go up-north at al. Many people have never been up-north ever and very few of you granted the good fortune of having a Dentist for a Grandfather, and the kind of dentist that loved to escape all those open mouths each weekend to build a little cottage with his own hands and then hew a road through the boulders and the trees that would turn into an ...
