Scenes from Quarantine

In August of 2017, in a very hastily planned trip, we piled our family of five into the car and drove nearly a thousand miles into the very middle of the path of totality of …[READ MORE]

Augh. The doldrums! I should have strong feelings about Rosh Hashanah, and our family did observe the somber holiday, dutifully spreading our apples and challah with honeycomb and eating the delicious chicken soup that Kevin’s …[READ MORE]

The forecast for today is “Smoke” again and my throat is sore and scratchy. It is not nearly so bad here as it is in the northern half of the state, and the two states …[READ MORE]

Another day, another reopening plan. After finally acknowledging that the summer push to get the economy going again amid the spread of the pandemic was a literal disaster and with cases across California finally starting …[READ MORE]

The boy and I have progressed in our binge-watching to Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip. We’ve made no secret of the fact that we love television about television and movies about movies and the …[READ MORE]

It was a day, maybe two, after Super Tuesday, after Elizabeth Warren stepped down, that I had the crushing realization. I had made an awful mistake. I had spent months defending the handful of women …[READ MORE]

Scenes from quarantine – Day 148:Kamala.Every single time I have found her name on a ballot, I have checked the little box beside it. Today, as my knitting needles click-clacked and I sunk into thought …[READ MORE]

The back door handle was hopelessly broken. The outside half was dangling by a single bent screw and you could see daylight through it. We tried, repeatedly, to fix it ourselves and it would be …[READ MORE]