This is how your middle/low income friends are using their stimulus money.

The kitten is slightly relevant, but I don’t have a ton of pictures that illustrate financial decisions and stress. Because who takes pictures of that?

Meredith LyonsMarch 26, 2021Comment

Anniversary Dread

The thumbnail picture was taken a year ago in our then-new backyard. Right when I thought things were finally starting to look up.

Meredith LyonsMarch 19, 2021Comment

Re-Learning 'Normal'

Lessons learned from our first gathering in a year. We’re going to have to pace ourselves.

Meredith LyonsMarch 12, 2021Comment

ChiTown Memories ~ Two Years Later

On the two year anniversary of my move from Chicago, I’m looking back at some of the things that the city gave me in my nearly two decades there.

Meredith LyonsMarch 5, 2021Comment

Why "we're all in this together" isn't always better.

Everyone on Earth is moving through a global pandemic together, but I feel that this is becoming more difficult than moving through a hardship on your on in some ways.

Meredith LyonsFebruary 26, 2021Comment

Snowed In

Unpacking my complex and ever changing relationship with snow.

Meredith LyonsFebruary 19, 2021Comment

Fifty Years Ago

Fifty years ago my parents were married. Because we’re in the midst of a global pandemic, there won’t be a big celebration. But that’s okay.

Friends and Family, Marriage, Relationships, SustainabilityMeredith LyonsFebruary 12, 2021Relationships, Married Life, COVID-19Comment

Change, adaptation and growth

I believe there are three types of change, and the way we recognize how we respond to them can drastically affect our lives.

Loss, Mental Training, resiliance, Starting FreshMeredith LyonsFebruary 5, 2021Resilience, changeComment

Friendships. Why and wherefore?

I’m still friends with everyone in this thumbnail. And I think that’s via mutual effort. Friendship is a theme that has been brought up frequently for me this month, so I am examining it in this post.

Friends and Family, RelationshipsMeredith LyonsJanuary 29, 2021friends, Self Awareness, RelationshipsComment

The Inauguration - My Feelings

I don’t have much to say, as I’m not too eloquent in speaking about such broad-affect things, but it was a day that is going to affect our future for years to come, perhaps even beyond this administration. So I had thoughts. And I might want to look back in a few years and see what I was thinking at this moment.

Meredith LyonsJanuary 22, 2021Comment

Let’s talk about boobs.

A whole lot of what I write about today I don’t generally like talking about and I feel like I’m not alone. I also thing that we should talk about these things more so that we feel less alone when we go through them.

Meredith LyonsJanuary 15, 2021 Comments

Jason. My first friend.

The thumbnail is my Aunt Shari introducing Jason to me. And thus my first friendship was formed.

Friends and Family, Grief, Relationships, LossMeredith LyonsJanuary 7, 2021family, loss, grief, memory Comments

A little stress to end the year on a bright spot.

I’ll be moving into 2021 with caution.

Meredith LyonsJanuary 1, 2021 Comment

Earning the right to relax

Dissecting why I feel the need to overwork myself right before a vacation.

Body Image Issues

No matter who we are, there’s generally something about ourselves that we’d like to change. And I’m all for working to be the best that you can be, but what about when you’re fighting against your basic architecture?