We are inching closer to 2021, and I’m very much looking forward to the new year. I’m ready for it in a way I’ve never been before. And it’s not just because this fucking year can suck it, but because I’m ready for new things. I feel like, despite everything — the crazy uncertainty, the…
Tag: Pandemic Life
2020 December – Week 50
Holy shit, it’s Week 50. I can’t believe I’ve been at this for almost an entire year… An entire, shitty year — entirely shitty. An entire entirely shitty year. Alas, I’m spent. Can you tell? Sunday I’m early with the Christmas cards this year. Or… holiday cards, since they’re more about connection during this season…
2020 December – Week 49
Get ready to see even more pictures of my cat. Because he is my life now. He’s always been my constant companion, but he’s basically Velcro Cat these days, and I’m one hundred percent okay with this. I don’t know what I’ll do without him. The pandemic hasn’t been easy, but it also hasn’t been…
2020 November – Week 48
Goodbye, Week Forty-eight. I want nothing to do with you. I don’t want to find the joy in the every day this week like I’ve been trying to do with this picture project. I don’t want to give thanks for all of life’s simple pleasures and blah blah friggin’ blah like I’m supposed to do…
2020 November – Week 47
You know when people put lots of cream in their coffee and then someone says, “Would you like a little coffee with that creamer?” Looking at my pictures this week and reflecting on the life I’ve lived during the past seven days, I feel like I should be asking myself: “Would you like a little…
2020 October – Week 44
Hello Week Forty-Four. And hello, Halloween, though I’m not handing out candy this year. Utica has never seen such a quiet Halloween. It’s kind of eerie — which is ironic. I’m a little sad to see October go, not because it was a great month (it was really quite the opposite), but because I’m afraid…
2020 October – Week 43
Another week in the books. It was another not-so-good week. I’m sensing a running theme with my reflections. Which is unfortunate, as this exercise is supposed to help me find beauty in the every day, or some shit. Perhaps in a non-pandemic year it would work better. Sunday The pandemic makes you constantly stuck between…
2020 October – Week 42
Hello, Week Forty-Two. We’re closing in on Election Day, and I’ve been trying to do something — anything — to feel like I’m helping to get both the vote and the orange Rump OUT. I donated some money so I could watch the West Wing cast play a hilariously disastrous trivia game, and I “adopted”…
2020 September – Week 40
Wake me up when this nightmare ends. That’s how I felt this week. I’ve always loved September, with its crisp fall air, new beginnings, and beautiful colors. But this year… well, I just want the entire year over. Week forty was… rough, to say the least. Somehow rougher than a few weeks ago. I thought…
2020 September – Week 38
Why is 2020 so hell-bent on destroying us? This was one of the shittier weeks, and that’s really saying something. It lasted TWENTY-ONE DAYS! Every teaching task takes forever because it isn’t one task, it’s ten. And I’m not sure any of it is truly meaningful in the way I’d like it to be. Every…