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Homeschooling – RIP & other news
As the city marches toward something close to normal...my lack of foresight meant I should have enjoyed the moments more.
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Moderna Man
Twelve months and one week after NYC was shutdown, I'm finally eligible to get my first shot....testimony to America's ingenuity
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Cabin fever – a time for reflection or a descent into madness? Day 31
Gandhi’s famous quote “freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes”. Never has that quote seemed so subverted as it is now.
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Good Friday – Bad Week. Day 24
It’s hard to celebrate Easter weekend while every day blends into the next. COVID put a personal face to the pandemic this week. Given the extraordinarily high infection rate in NY, it was inevitable. I know five people who are currently fighting this and two who have recovered. Viewed in the abstract, an inconvenience to your everyday life. It’s there, but over there. Not me. Then the dreaded news comes to you. My cousin’s husband Patrick, passed away Wednesday, after a little over a week on a ventilator. It started with a wheeze and went rapidly downhill from there. When I heard he was in the hospital, I thought about…
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Day 19 – Homeschooling – Unmitigated Disaster
We have two feral animals that have taken over our apartment. To say the place looks like Aleppo would be an understatement. For those non-New Yorker’s reading this, we predominantly live in apartments in NYC, which is a markedly different experience to having a house. Cabin fever takes on a whole new meaning during stay a home orders. My naughty time consists of trawling Zillow and Trulia dreaming of space and backyards. I’m envious of my many friends with older, self-reliant, kids. Babylicious is 2 and Chisler is 5. They have miraculously become “independent thinkers “with their “own idea” of free time. Parents & schedules be damned. The first few…
