March 2021
No contest highlight of the month: My husband and I got our first shots of the COVID-19 vaccine. The line stretched three and a half blocks when we arrived at the walk-in clinic, and the weather was cold and drizzly,…
February 2021
What I’m reading February was a month for savoring books, and I read some great ones. In fact, I did something this month I never do: I read the same book — Tana French’s The Searcher — not once, but…
January 2021
Grief. Outrage. Horror. Anxiety. Relief. Hope. January was a month of emotional extremes. The first anniversary of my dad’s death. An attempted coup. The horrific milestone of 400,000 dead in this country from COVID. The more personal fear and anxiety…
