Today is Tuesday. I don't know what day it's supposed to feel like because, frankly, I've stopped keeping track. It's hard to sort out the days – and my emotions – around a global pandemic. Remember those cartoons where someone would go rolling down a hill of snow and start to get balled up into a giant snowball? That's how each day feels...

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Po-po is turning 86 next month. We had planned a large gathering, as my family often does for these kinds of celebrations, but it's been postponed. We say postponed, I think, because "canceled" is too harsh. In reality, I think we all know the truth. Three-hundred and fifty miles away, up north, yeh-yeh and ma-ma are in a nursing home that's been locked down from outside...

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First thing's first: Wash your hands. Now, onto the post: I haven't been writing so far this year. Actually, this blog has kind of slowed down a lot in the past two years. So much of it, I now know, was because I had given up. Somewhere between my year of creating and now, I found myself unsure if I really had a...

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