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Where Are the Celebrations?

Tuesday, December 27, 2022

In my last blog post in 2020, I wrote about a promise to my son. That when COVID had passed and we were all free to move safely about the country, there’d be celebrations everywhere. Life made a liar of me.

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I Have Always Practiced Social Isolation—Pt. 3

Friday, April 3, 2020

Keeping the kids busy hasn’t been terribly hard. Keeping them from engaging in periodic sibling head-butting is the main issue, though they’ve shown remarkable restraint (why is restraint always remarkable?) and have yet to bludgeon, guillotine, or otherwise massacre each other. As mentioned, until their school sets up tele-classes, or what have you, we’ve given […]

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I Have Always Practiced Social Isolation—Pt. 1

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

A friend of mine, Eric Kirsammer, suggested I regularly post something during this period of social isolation. Some kind of online diary, “in your style” as he put it. Presumably he meant with an ironic, sarcastic, and semi-bitter tone, owing to the complete absence of that sort of writing from the Interweb. Ohhhh, that’s what […]

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