Full Circle an Easter Pattern of New Beginnings
The ADHD tendency to see patterns has shown me a beautiful REstart showing up this week.
If you follow me, then you know that I landed a new job that sends me back to my roots as a local news reporter. Like my words on paper and ink, type of reporting. It’s funny because a few years ago, I had trolls who tried to say that I was not a writer. And not even a real reporter. Hilarious because over the course of my writing career, I have written everything. The trolls had no way of knowing that or that I started as a stringer for The Purdue Voice and The Laporte County Herald Argus. I still have the articles (clipped out and everything).
So, now I am going back to being on the ground, gathering the stories of other people and telling them to the larger public on a huge platform—Colorado Community Media. The way my ADHD works, I am always seeing patterns, and the fact that this is a full circle moment took me out and shocked me for a moment. The patterns were more like parallels with my first go-round as a reporter.
1. My two oldest kids were 7 and 9, the same age as my youngest two are now. Cate and Chloe are now 26 and 24, but they were so young when I was a stringer.
2. I had to take the kids on most of my jobs the because I had no babysitting options. My now ex-husband was a truck driver and not home until the weekends. My family, siblings (except for my late brother Rob), cousins, parents, etc. were unavailable and/or unreliable. I didn’t make enough to afford a sitter so I took assignments that were kid-friendly.