Some days I feel like I’m living in a parallel universe. I’ve seen the data, data showing that my community, like so many communities, has yet again reached high levels of Covid transmission. I’ve heard the pleas from those at high risk, begging others to care about them enough to try to protect them, to […]
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It rained yesterday. It’s been raining a lot this summer, here in my corner of the desert Southwest, drenching rains that make doors swell and stick shut, that cause foot-tall weeds to spring up seemingly overnight, that turn dry washes into temporary raging rivers as water struggles to soak into soil baked hard by decades
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At my daughter’s elementary school, every child learns three things from the first day of kindergarten on: “Be kind and respectful. Be responsible. Be safe.” These principles inform every aspect of school life, creating a caring atmosphere that’s one of the reasons I love her school and want to send her back in person this
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Walking through my neighborhood, mask covering more than half my face, it felt like surely everyone I walked past was staring at me.
1. I have a piece in the Weekly Humorist this week. “Buy My Book, It Will Protect You from the Coronavirus, Says Author Whose Public Appearances Have All Been Canceled” (For the record, I didn’t have any launches or appearances planned. But a great many authors have, and you should totally buy their books.) 2.