Putting the OM in OMG
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
Tomorrow is February! I simultaneously feel like it's February, whee, already! and also that New Year's was several months ago. I'm looking at the calendar, and the first of the month, with the taking down of the tree and the Fresh Start of New … [Continue reading]
