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…

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…

Yesterday, we expanded our quaranteam to include the family across the street. It has been 70 days since their son (age 11) and our boys (12, 9, 6) saw each other, or anyone…

Jack and I are watching an episode (or two) of Rosemary and Thyme every night. We have made our way through Father Brown first, and then Murder She Wrote, and then Magnum PI,…

I’ve been somewhat at loose ends all day. Reopening is causing me much more anxiety and insecurity than closing did. It makes sense – we are all already weary from two-plus months of…