GRECCHINOIS
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELIZABETH
“One of the social media initiatives at CAIC last year was a weekly #WomensHistoryWednesday post as we focused on the theme of last year’s Collaborative Works Festival, which celebrated the the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment…”
WHAT NEXT?
“In these final days of this challenge, I find myself wondering what the next chapter of this blog will entail. When I started on this blogging journey back in 2006, it really began as an experiment. Over the years, it’s continued to feel that way, this 30 day challenge included. As with everything…”
RECEIPT REVIEW
“Day 27!
I’m a bit surprised to be in the home stretch of this challenge already. I guess they say that time flies when you’re having fun. Today was spent finishing up getting my taxes ready for my accountant, which involved combing through every transaction of 2020, and sorting them into expense categories…”
CHAMPAGNE AND TAXES
“As promised, despite not winning a Grammy Award today, I still celebrated with some distanced champagne shared with a couple of dear friends this afternoon. It’s such a thrill to be nominated for the Grammys, and I do hope it will happen again…”
NOMINEE
“The Grammy Awards are tomorrow.
Strangely, if my loved ones weren’t constantly wishing me well for tomorrow, I would almost have forgotten about the ceremony. While it is surreal enough to be nominated for a Grammy Award, it is even more dreamlike in the context of covid, with everything taking place online…”
BLOCKS
“Day 24.
It’s interesting to me that as I enter the home stretch of this exercise in daily posting, this is the most challenging part. Each day, I push my writing time later and later, as if I am doing my best to miss a day…”
ONE YEAR
“As the one-year anniversary of the coronavirus lockdown in the United States passes us by this week, I’ve had a lot of conversations with people discussing where we were a year ago, reminiscing about how little we seemed to know and the strange things everyone was doing as the world…”
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