Success

JD reflects on changing views of success—from a traditional work ethic to personal growth and resilience, questioning societal norms and valuing happiness and self-discovery.

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Day 30, people! Day 30. Done and dusted. Challenged accepted. Challenge accomplished. Keegan woke me up today just before 7 am. By using his fingernails to scratch the alphabet into my back. A…
1 year ago
Keeping in line with the status quo, Keegan woke me up before 6 am. He was pretty content to lay and cuddle for about 10 minutes. Oh well, I thought to myself, I might as well get up. So I did. I…
1 year ago
Today was another “sleep in.” 8:30 am! Woooo. I had to look at my watch three times before I believed it. Why does he only “sleep in” when we have nothing to do? In quotation marks, I put to sleep…
1 year ago
We slept in today. Well, I did. Keegan was already up. I got up at 8 am. But, hey, that's a sleep-in compared to what we had during the week. I got up mainly because I heard a noise that wasn…
1 year ago
So if nothing else, my little man, aka BullNado, aka the human alarm clock, is consistent. 4 am today. Soooooo tired. But we have a 9:15 am appointment this morning at his (possible) new school for…
1 year ago