Update from Pen

Wherein I discuss why I am tired and where I am trying to get

My goal for this publication is to post every Monday. For the last few weeks, I haven’t met that goal. I apologize, especially to my paid subscribers. Thank you for the patience you have gracefully shown me.

I work full time at a state facility that provides residential and medical care to intellectually challenged adults who also have behavioral diagnoses. Things get chaotic. Timelines get disrupted. The work is meaningful, and that’s why I stay. In the smallest of ways, I am helping people who cannot help themselves.

I’ll share more in time, but for me, the big news this week was that I got elected to my town’s council. Position 5, Utilities, to be specific. I have this dream that one day, in the USA, access to the Internet will be treated with the same energy we now give to demanding that any fool can have as many guns as he or she, or they want t…