by Tammy Davis | Feb 24, 2022 | Daily dose
My friend is overloaded at work and constantly frazzled. Though he works long hours and through many weekends, it’s never enough to catch up. There’s always another task, and usually it’s urgent. To make matters worse, he’s experiencing some...
by Tammy Davis | Feb 23, 2022 | Daily dose
I clicked on a Buzzfeed story that popped up in my newsfeed the other day: 18 Privileges That Many People Don’t Even Recognize. Using my iPhone. Inside the home I own. Sitting on furniture that matches the room around it. With a satisfied stomach. On a weekend...
by Tammy Davis | Feb 22, 2022 | Daily dose
My city currently finds itself in the midst of a garbage crisis. An unfortunate and mostly preventable series of events has led to increasingly terrible service over the past four years, and now when I put my bins at the curb, I wonder how long they’ll stay...
by Tammy Davis | Feb 11, 2022 | Daily dose
I got up this morning thinking about typing. Even though I was only half awake, I found an online typing test and started pounding the keyboard. After sixty seconds of churning out random sentences with my fingers, I learned my results: 75 words per minute. Not bad...
by Tammy Davis | Feb 10, 2022 | Daily dose
This morning I read an op-ed written by the daughter of someone famous. She began the piece with an anecdote from her childhood and built her argument from there. The piece was well written, thoughtful, and I believed, completely appropriate. Once again I made the...
by Tammy Davis | Feb 9, 2022 | Daily dose
When my son was little, I often took him with me to visit my grandmother in the hospital. Once when a custodian came into the room, my curious three-year-old wanted to know what that person was doing. I explained that she helped keep the hospital clean. Curious Boy...
