Emily Fridenmaker

@emilyfri.bsky.social

Wife | Mom | Appalachian | MD | Pulmonary & Critical Care

7:30am: egg white omelette with mushrooms 10am: apple 12pm: cut up fruit with yogurt 3pm: banana 6pm: grilled chicken with salad (light dressing) 8pm: frozen yogurt 830pm: 2 cookies 845pm: 4 cookies 850pm: 8 cookies 9pm: bag of Doritos 930pm: Big Mac and fries

Some men turn 80 and plant a tree knowing they’ll never sit in its shade. Others turn 80 and strip the orchard bare, cut all the trees down to sell the lumber, pocket the cash, and blame the hungry for not inheriting fruit.

Our benefits are changing and I’m listening to a meeting about all the insurances and the rules and restrictions the companies set and it is enraging. Why have we as a country allowed this jacked up system where paper pushing, money extracting companies call the shots?

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

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I took my work email off my phone last week for vacation. I’m experimenting with leaving it off, since most emails require me to be at a computer to deal with anyways. So far I like not having to know about things before I can actually take care of them.

Herbs and strawberries (with a photobomb from coral honeysuckle climbing up the trellis), and the prettiest little copper garden markers ready and waiting for their flower friends to go in the dirt. 🌱

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