Covid-19

Do I look ill? I had the surprising result of my first positive Covid test yesterday. I was in the “no Covid to my knowledge” club (my husband and I had a very brief flu at the start of Covid we were never 100% sure about). I had been feeling…

Yeah, people really are still getting sick — For the past three years, my husband and I managed to dodge getting infected with COVID-19, despite the fact that we both work in public schools. I am grateful for that. But we finally did get sick last week, two days before our spring break started. Like most other people…

21 March 2023 Earlier tonight, I was watching an episode of American Masters about Dr. Anthony Fauci. It was a retrospective of his career, looking back not just at his role in recent years fighting the spread of COVID-19, but his earlier work during the start of the AIDS epidemic…

My demons got together and wrote a long story. — I had no intention of writing a novel. I prefer essays and short stories. I would have shrugged indifferently if you had suggested I write a novel when Covid started. I would have laughed if you said it was going to be about alternative sexual lifestyles. But here we are. …

There are worse things to worry about than the covid. — “Itz clear!” Pepe exclaimed. “The world is end now. Itz very clear! Look! What they do?” In his broken English, Pepe expresses his frustration as best as he could. The only problem is, I disagree. But I listened, nonetheless. “You can’t! You can’t forze pippo do what they don’t want…