Midweek Musing: Seeing Differently in the Waiting I didn’t expect to be writing this week’s musing from a hospital room. I didn’t ask for a hernia or the pain that accompanied it. I would not recommend this to anyone. Hernias get a 0 out of 5 stars. Fortunately, the awful acute pain is managed but now I am waiting for the next steps which includes surgery. But the when, where, who…. that is the great mystery that I am, waiting to see solved. Now, waiting has a way of slowing

Recently on social media I saw a series of pictures that show how people’s names were hilariously misspelled by baristas at Starbuck and Dunkin and such. For example: Michelle becomes “Missle.” Erin becomes “AIR INN.” Caitlin becomes “Kitten.” One man reportedly told the cashier his name was “Stephen with a ph.” His receipt came back reading “Phteven.” Now in an attempt to provide these folks an excuse and be fair, coffee shops are noisy places. The machines are loud, orders