Category: Categorizing Things is Overrated

We just came home from our last trip – this time to visit the in-laws. Like before, we all were particularly careful with quarantining before the trip, and all got tested before the trip also. (The Prof and I were the only ones who actually received RESULTS before the trip – South Carolina is absolutely…

Well I left that bleak post up quite a long while, and I’m sorry about that. Like everyone, I am experiencing the emotional “roller coaster” of quarantine – some days I’m amazing at this and it’s great and I’m loving the family time, and other days I just can’t take another step. I can usually…

The Saharan dust cloud has arrived on the Gulf Coast. It is hazy here, it’s been overcast for days. It rained all week, plus the dust haze, and I’m really, really sick of quarantine. I am having a hard time not feeling sorry for myself – no help, no one to take the kids away…

It is our One Hundredth Day of Quarantine. Technically, we have not been in this house for 100 days. We did take a Quarantine Vacation, subtitled, The Same Five People, Just In A Different House. We generally do a weeklong vacation the first week of the boys’ summer break – Big Bend last year, a…

Hello dollies. What a couple of weeks, right? I have done quite a bit of hand-wringing in my various social media feeds, and I find myself out of words in this more long-form space. So instead of blathering on, I will suggest a few follows to you readers. I learned about some of these people…