I have a cold and there’s been a Covid outbreak on my daughter-in-law’s sister’s side of the family, so we’ve all been spending Christmas NOT getting together. Whatever we’ve got it’s keeping us away from dat baby. For Christmas Eve, Mark and I had homemade pizza and watched Love Actually and the Christmas Ted Lasso … [Read more…]
Here in this (almost unbelievably) 3rd spring of the pandemic, it’s different now, especially when you are choosing the right thing to do, also the title of book my brother wrote, almost 25 years ago. I mean there’s not that crushing fear of getting sick, like there was in the first months. Even more I … [Read more…]
… but I forgot. It’s been that kind of a week, meetings, like the one on Thursday talking about are we going to Fall conferences or what; getting our AFS student registered for school and starting running; grad student problem emails; updating syllabi … wondering what the hell is going on, both weather-wise, and pandemic-related. … [Read more…]
I, like everyone else, am feeling uncertain about how to emerge from isolation and rejoin un-masked society, as the pandemic seems to be ending. The last couple weeks I’ve been feeling really awkward – like heading out for a walk in the morning thinking, “is it OK I’m doing this? I must look weird … … [Read more…]
I took Friday off to get an extra long weekend for Memorial Day, and have been doing pretty good at not working, although I did check email everyday, and did reply to few messages on Friday and today (Sunday). Saturday we had friends over for a driveway cookout. I kept thinking there were going to … [Read more…]