Category: Life
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The Narrative
As I get older, I am starting to realize that we all have a running narrative in our heads. It tells us who we think we are, what we believe we can do, and how we interact with the world. I don’t think it’s as much a psychological phenomenon as it is a sociological one.…
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Fathers and Sons
As a long time people watcher and student of relationships, I have stumbled across a trend that seems to be more common than I realized. It seems that no matter what the circumstances are, fathers and sons don’t generally have great relationships. My relationship with my father wasn’t great. He grew up with a legacy…
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Personality Types
I’ve become fascinated with the Enneagram. If you are unfamiliar, it’s basically an ancient personality test that tells which of these 9 personality groups you fit into. The cool thing about this vs Myers-Briggs, or any other test is that each group has a spectrum you fall into depending on how healed and functional you…
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My Very Unhealthy Relationship with Food
Way back, when I was tiny Zander, I wasn’t permitted to snack outside of meals very often. The old school way of parenting was that children should be seen but not heard, and all food consumed was during 3 meals. The Boomers and their parents missed the boat on this. By the time I was…
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Fairytales and Future Dreams
My life feels like a fairytale today. School starts soon in our state and I need to get the children back from my ex this week. We are meeting halfway between our respective cities. My wife and I decided that we wanted to do our own thing a few days before we have to meet…
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Teachers and Veterans
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has a very interesting theory about how to address the teaching shortage in his state. He waived the degree requirements for teachers in his state and changed the requirements to just 60 college credits with at least a 2.5 GPA. Huh. That’s a solid C average. So basically he is saying…
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Greece
I’m dying to travel. I wasn’t big into traveling when I was younger. I did a TON of traveling with the military, mostly around the US and then on deployments. We often flew into awesome places like Ireland and Iceland on the way out to the desert. I really want to visit those places. But…
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Let’s Go Chasing Rainbows in the Sky
Who knows where that’s from? Go ahead and guess, I’ll wait! I’m pretty sure it’s unlikely that most people actually know those lyrics because they’re from a song off a solo album for a singer that was better received with his group than as a soloist, even though his voice is legendary. That particular singer…
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My ADHD Life
This morning I chose to wear my Holderness Family “ADHD is awesome” shirt. I regret this decision as I had a crazy, scattered day. I’m not saying the shirt caused it, but maybe it did. Most of the time I am super upbeat and positive about having ADHD. It was awesome to finally get the…
Zander's Inside Voice 