I’ve had to deal with the IRS and AAA this week if you were wondering how my life’s going. Here’s a late newsletter, with a new format I’m trying on for size. Have a wonderful week. “Tags: crazy pizza, enormous pizza, huge pizza, LaManna bakery, Toronto” mossandfog.com “Friendships hold uncountable sorrows and joys, like toasting your new life or eating Ikea hot dogs in the store parking lot, our masks blowing like flags from our wrists.”

Every child hates going to the doctor for one simple reason: generally, when you’re there, you’re not having a good time. Negative associations abound. You’re sick and you feel bad. If you’re really sick, the doctor might make you feel worse, a shot pricking you with a needle, the momentary…

O, Wind, If Winter comes, can spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1819 Here’s what all this means: We’re now on track to have enough vaccine supply for every adult in America by the end of May. President Joe Biden, 2021 1. “We have to find many, many new words…

Last spring, as the quarantine days became weeks, turned to months, and to seasons, our language for the pandemic’s pace changed; we are about to pluralize “year.” This week, as we approach the one year anniversary, the United States has lost now more than 500,000 neighbors to this virus. …

My computer is at the Genius Bar, currently being diagnostically probed for the problems I reported to Apple this week. They’re small as individual issues, but collectively they’ve made using my computer frustrating at times, and near-impossible at others. So far I’m told they can’t find any faults. …

I live in downtown Charleston, S.C., and the home I am renting is currently for sale. Charleston is a real estate hotspot right now, so we’ve had to accommodate a showing almost daily. We’re extra sure to have the house in a presentable state at a moment’s notice. …

Pandemic aside, this week has felt normal. The Trump-associated weight of the last four years hasn’t abated, but it has shifted and feels a little easier to carry now. …

I had a civics teacher, I think in middle school, who used to refer to the straight ticket option on a ballot as the “dummy button.” It’s not so much that he felt voting on partisan lines was bad per se, but that making an affirmative decision for each candidate…

Local favorites, Xiao Bao Biscuit and Tu, were caught charging customers extra sales tax on every bill, a 2.5 percent surcharge that was undisclosed and intended as a “convenience fee” offsetting credit card processing fees, according to the Post & Courier. …