There’s a Bon Jovi song I love called “Who Says You Can’t Go Home?” If you’ve been around a while, you may have heard me use it in one of my earlier camp montages, and… SPOILER ALERT… I can’t imagine not using it in the next one. It’s almost too perfect. The only difference between using it now vs. then is that it used to be a rhetorical question. Over the last few weeks, we spent six days on the ...
Social Distancing, Part II: Missing Pieces
At the beginning of all this, when the concept of quarantining to protect ourselves from the novel coronavirus was still, well… novel, we started doing puzzles. It began with the four of us, but now it’s down to me and Max. Not the quarantining— trust me, all four of us are still present and accounted for every single second of every single day— but the puzzling. After completing a few that we had ...
Social Distancing, Part 1: Reflections, Connections, Reality Checksions
I was an English major. I know checksions isn't a real word. I also know that today is the 11th day my kids were supposed to be in school but aren’t. So yes, I flashed my poetic license. Most days, I am overwhelmed by how lucky we are to have our health, each other, and pretty much everything we need. That’s not to say I haven’t lost perspective along the way. I was far more choked up about ...
