I can’t quite think of an exact business idea, but I have a rough business model around my favorite things, which are: cats, tea, books, health, wellness & crystals! I can work on a crazy business with these in mind. It will be an online “shop” of a cozy nook for similar people with these same favorite things.
I could charge a monthly fee that would include a monthly featured crystals with its healing properties and a tea with similar healing properties. A monthly virtual cat will visit and I can share a featured book each month that has health & wellness tips.
I think that about sums up my crazy online monthly subscription business. I will call it “catsandbooksandteaandcrystalsandhealthandwellness.com” … might have to work on that name a bit!
After a bit of thought about what exactly is my mission, I decided to look up the overall meaning of the word.
When I decided to start a blog for writing about a month ago, my head was spinning. I wasn’t exactly sure what my purpose was or where I wanted to go with this. Today, as I think more about it, words simply like “enjoy” come to mind. I enjoy this. For now, that’s about it. I basically am keeping an online journal of thoughts on various topics that will now exist until after my time for my family & friends to read.
I think for now that’s a good mission. It brings a personal enjoyment or fulfillment to my life and makes me happy.
Perhaps someday I can use my “voice” here through writing to serve a higher purpose for others. Help others in some way as I am a mother of a recovering addict and a transgender son. Perhaps I can be of some use to other parents going through either one of these life altering situations when raising their own children. Showing others how love & support can go a long way rather than distancing or not understanding.
Well that took a turn. Back to my original mission of writing for now for personal enjoyment and fulfillment with perhaps one day offering my support for more serious life situations.
What are your thoughts on the concept of living a very long life?
Having recently just said goodbye to my soon to be 90 year old mother and seeing her age after the recent passing of my Dad, I’m sad by long life.
While, of course, life is beautiful, lately it seems to be turning into a string of disjointed good moments sprinkled with sad moments. The overall concept of living a very long life is appealing but be sure to have space in your heart as the years go by reserved for those who pass before you. These are not the years for the heart to become weak, but stronger with the love from those days gone by.
Cherish the moments. Stay healthy. Keep your mind sharp. Time is not guaranteed to any of us. Make the most of each day you are given to make the very long life worthwhile.
What would a wannabe writer be without a post from a café on a cold, after snowstorm, Connecticut Monday morning…so here you have it! My “chai latte & everything bagel with butter” post!
I came here to (early) celebrate my Mom turning 90 years old on January 13th. It snowed. My flight got canceled. I stayed an extra day and now I can write my blog from a café.
Listening to the sounds of dishes clinking, griddle sizzling, background music and soft conversations. A few laptop patrons hard at work and now I have the cozy company of my son for a breakfast chat! What a vibe!
I am on a journey to be some sort of writer, not sure what kind, but will write and see where it takes me. I hope you enjoy my chai latte post, I’m enjoying sitting here writing it!
Nothing like a bagel from Connecticut, it’s been a minute!
Do you spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Why?
Lately, not sure why, I’ve become very fixated on the past. My childhood years and the years of my family before me. I like to think about what life was like back in the 40s & 50s…simpler times but still struggles that we have today (job loss, making ends meet, medical issues, etc). What were people thinking, what was the collective thoughts of the generations.
For a sad reason, Ian Ziering of Beverly Hills 90210 fame recently made headlines and watching the news story shook me up. He was attacked by bikers in Los Angeles’s Hollywood Boulevard. What is happening? I had a tough time watching the news footage of the fighting and was grateful he, and his daughter, got away from them, unharmed.
I wanted to share my photo with Ian, one of the nicest celebrities I ever met! He showed up at a juice bar in Fairfield, CT on a random weekday in 2012. I was never totally sure what his association was to Catch A Healthy Habit. I recall it had something to do with having your antioxidants tested. He’s very healthy from what I recall. I was lucky to stop in on my lunchbreak, chat for a few and snap this pic!
Hooligans, leave Ian alone, leave everyone alone for that matter! We are better than this as a whole.
It’s November 12th, 1980. I’m in my childhood home. My mom is watching me open my birthday presents on the living room floor. I want to relive this day, these moments. I cherish these photos someone took and developed. I needed that Kinks album (to the right) to play on that stereo behind me! I turned 15. Life was good.
I’ve been thinking over my working years and found this image that transported me back to where it all began. Yes, kids, that was a computer, with a floppy disk, and that was my job.
The year is 1985. I just graduated from Norwalk Community College with a 2 year Associates degree in Secretarial Science. Not quite sure how the word science entered the field however here I am, 20 years old, ready to take on my field of choice.
A Word Processor job opened up and I grabbed it! Excited to help put together the paperwork that would sell anechoic (soundproof) chambers all over the country! We had a telex machine that we would dial up a number, wait for several moments, hear a beep, then press send to share a document with a potential buyer. Ah, I can still smell the cigarette smoke coming from Peggy Thompsons office. The memories stay with me of the years gone by. Our children will not know of this world, so i wanted to briefly document my experience for posterity.
Fast forward to the year 2023. Today I hold a different title, Administrative Assistant. I’ve managed to do this type of work for the better part of 40 years. Somewhere along the line the title changed and a 4 year degree became a requirement. I’ve lost 3 Administrative jobs and left 1 on my own, but the skill set overall has served me well. Typing has not (yet) gone away. Organizing and scheduling seem to be hot in this field while telex machines and floppy disks are a thing of the past.
I think in this day and age I got lucky that I was able to make a living doing admin work. Not sure what 40 years from now will bring for this field as there have been so many transitions to this role, but from my cubicle to yours, keep up that typing speed!
It wouldn’t be Christmas for me without a mention of the Santa my Dad painted when I was born! Enjoy this short film my talented, documentary film maker, big sister Kathy made and listen to my Mom tell the story!
For more on my family history check out my sisters Instagram page @drasky_family_archive 🎅🏼🎄
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