Judy Lindquist

Portfolio Career. I recently read the term for the first time on a blog. The term refers to doing a variety of things that enable you to grow your skills in different areas and potentially have multiple income streams. In addition to the added income, focusing on having a Portfolio Career enables a person to have the flexibility to diversify their skillset and feed their passions. Apparently, I have been working on my Portfolio Career for years and never knew it.

I have always loved writing letters. I think it started when I was a girl scout more than 60 years ago and became pen pals with a girl I had never met, but our troops wrote to each other. Yes, these were the years before digital and electronic communication, so the options were more limited, but I grew to adore writing letters and wrote them frequently. I have been thinking a lot about my letter writing lately, as I just finished the book The Correspondent by Virgi

I am an early bird. An obsessively early bird. I am getting up when my night owl friends are going to bed. Literally. By the time the sun comes up, I have been up for hours. When people discover what time I rise in the morning, most react like it is a hardship. But I feel it is a gift to myself. The hours when the world is still dark and quiet and I am alone. They are peaceful and productive hours for me. I do my morning yoga and meditation. I write. I plan.

Across the country lately, there has been a lot of focus on discomfort. Or rather, in relation to our nation’s history, how to avoid making people uncomfortable. There seems to be a focused, concerted effort to erase anything that refers to anything in our history that does not make one feel proud and superior. State legislatures have even crafted laws that essentially says that schools are not allowed to teach anything that makes a student uncomfortable. Yes,