I should have written more during the pandemic. But writing requires a certain level of motivation, and pandemics have a way of draining the motivation from you. In many ways it seems silly to talk about survival when I have a full refrigerator, Christmas gifts...
Yesterday I was talking to my therapist and relaxing in a swing and he said I seemed calm. I was calm, in a way. I had more or less resolved to homeschool, because homeschool is the only scenario in which I'm in complete control and...
I'm not gonna lie. We're unraveling here. Keeping in mind this is the cocoon. We will move through this. We will emerge. The way I was glued to Cuomo's updates these past weeks, waiting for the day that we could see that New York had passed the...
I've been thinking about change. Tim Havens from Falls Farm and Garden said once at SUNY Adirondack's Microenterprise Assistance Program (which is now called Startup ADK), "The first rule of business is: Stay In Business." And then you realize — in order to stay in business, you...
It's almost imperceptible, the easier-ness. It starts as a feeling like you were supposed to be somewhere or do something, but forgot. You've been so used to the chaos, the tornado of people needing you one hundred percent of the time, that if there is one...
If you're a parent on the internet, you have no doubt by now heard about Momo, this frightening face with bug eyes and a terrifying bird mouth that allegedly is spliced into your kiddo's Peppa Pig cartoons on YouTube telling kids to harm themselves. (Don't...
In a LiveJournal entry dated August 21, 2001, I made a list titled “What I Want.” (LiveJournal was the premier blogging website, back before blogging had a name.) I was living in Rutland, Vermont, at the time. Among bullet points like “Making art,” “A cell phone...