I have been reading Keep Moving by Maggie Smith, and it’s beautiful; I wish, though, that I had read it two years ago, at the beginning of the pandemic. It’s perfect for Pandemic Life; for any kind of Life that has encountered loss, really. It was exactly two years ago yesterday that everything shut down, […]
Losing My Religion; One Hundred and Three Weeks In
March 7, 2022 by 41 Comments
A brief timeline of Covid-related happenings over the past six months, if you will indulge me: Fall: After “Open for Summer” which had all restrictions dropped, massive Covid outbreaks, ICUs are full, masks once again mandated, and vaccines required to go to restaurants, fitness classes, and entertainment venues. Mid-December: Gathering restrictions for (largely unvaccinated) children […]
Marital Mismatches and Superpowers; One Hundred and Two Weeks In
February 28, 2022 by 41 Comments
It feels like I was JUST saying that February is tomorrow, and here we are, MARCH is tomorrow! February flew by; part of it was that it felt like Life Was Hectic, with wrestling tournaments and a new school semester and a five-day weekend thrown in for good measure, but part of it was that […]
Nicole’s Favourite Things: The I Choo-Choo-Choose Me Edition
February 24, 2022 by 30 Comments
I am obsessed with the song i by Kendrick Lamar. Do you know it? When he heard me playing it and singing along, my son told me that i is on The Greatest Hip Hop Album Of All Time, which I didn’t know, but which made me feel like this: Or maybe this: I would […]
A Week of Winter Outfits; One Hundred and One Weeks In
February 21, 2022 by 37 Comments
When you were a kid, did you have paper dolls or Barbies or those Mattel Fashion Plates? I sure did and I loved them immoderately. I loved the idea of different clothes for different activities; I loved putting together the outfits and imagining what the doll would do in those outfits. Gardening! The opera! Or, […]
Valentines and Galentines; One Hundred Weeks In
February 14, 2022 by 44 Comments
Tomorrow is the big day, everyone! It’s Half-Price Heart-Shaped Chocolate Day! I think I might pop out for a box of Ferraro Roche to take to my Thursday class, as they put up with my very dumb “archaeologists discovered a mummy covered in nuts and chocolates, they think it was the first Pharaoh Roche” joke. […]
Fun In Your Forties; Ninety-Nine Weeks In
February 7, 2022 by 38 Comments
Ninety-nine! I’ve got ninety-nine problems, but Covid isn’t one, yet. Doesn’t it feel like a ticking time bomb, though? In the first four waves, I knew only a handful of people who had gotten sick; now it feels like I know only a handful of people who haven’t gotten sick, all of whom, needless to […]
