The third quarter of our school year is almost at an end. But that’s not what I want to write about. There is a war in Eastern Europe, started by a madman with access to nuclear weapons and a previously demonstrated and re-confirmed complete disregard for the lives and safety of his own citizens, let […]
Category: pandemic
Best-Laid Plans and All that Rubbish
Well, looks like we’re going to need to purchase a new car for Tom sooner than later, one that I can use to get to and from school in the fall until the car we ordered for me is available. Even when things appear to be running smoothly, so many things can be out of […]
Passages
trigger warning: death from covid Some days don’t happen the way they should have. This was one of those days. We awakened to learn that a family member was dying from Covid – an unnecessarily devastating turn of events as this person was seeming to improve in recent days. But no, and the cruelty is […]
Intensity and Death
There is an urgency, an immediacy, during an acute crisis. We do not think ahead, and we do not look back. At its most acute, impending death is merciful: We act, respond, re-act, and keep moving waiting for the next step, the next movement, the next breath, the next heartbeat… three two one . And […]