Are you nostalgic yet—our last spring forward, possibly*

This blog is about a conglomerate of things I’m passionate about—and attracts several diverse audiences. There’s friends and family who tune in to read about what’s going on with me and enjoy pics of my grandson—who’s terribly cute (notice the use of both of those words). Others have begun to find me because of an interest in Tiny House living. I also write about writing—specifically flash and memoir, where I’ve combined the two into flash memoir, a term I’ve coined to talk about (book me for a workshop or seminar, either remote or in-person) writing small memories, scenes that may or may not have a larger connection to a memoir, about how to take an anecdote and turn it into an essay.

From the blog set piece: Auto fiction is the word the French use for a form somewhere between truth and a kind of distilled truth. Memoirous is about memories, real and unreal. What we think happened.

Truth—the times they are a-changin’. We are about to experience our last Spring Forward daylights savings or whatever it’s called.

How many of us have regretted “losing” that hour in the spring as we turn the hands of the clock forward an hour or adversely hated the thought of late winter afternoons, the impending darkness at 4 pm. It plays with our emotions, our moods, and had become bound up in politics. Indiana and Arizona for example opted out and created their own time zones. More about autonomy than time or savings.

So, yes, time is complicated.

Writing prompt: wax nostalgic about time changes and how they have impacted you or your memories of the past.

*From an Axiom article

--The switch to daylight saving time “carries many health and accident risks and is misaligned with human circadian biology,” said the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, which is in favor of moving to “permanent, year-round standard time.”

--The change affects sleep schedules and can make it hard for kids and their parents to adjust.

--More than two-thirds of Americans want to stop changing their clocks, according to a March 2022 YouGov poll.

--A study in the journal Current Biology predicts that year-round daylight saving time could prevent 36,550 deer deaths, 33 human deaths, 2,054 human injuries and $1.19 billion in collision costs annually.

Lyda Jackson, friend

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