I have been meditating a lot lately on safety. If you asked me what I fear, I don’t know if I could pinpoint something in particular – a fear of catching Covid, a fear that the government will collapse, a fear that my colleagues will figure out that I really have no idea what I …
I was on the bus once, a city bus in a neighborhood with a lot of affluent older white people. A crowd of people got on, loud teens, laughing. One of them stood out, a really large African-American man, baggy pants, stretched out t-shirt, long jacket, hat turned to the side, big chains, larger than …
Last year, I signed up to work the polls. Yes, it was boring. There was a boring half-day class in how to do the job, and then a full day of sitting around being bored while I waited for people to come in and vote in a simple off-year election. Like most of us, I …
Are you dreading the future now? I'm seeing a lot of this around me. I see people who fear a future that isn't what they are used to, so they pretend that things haven't changed, and go back to their pre-Covid lives, refuse to wear masks, and go out drinking with friends. I see young …
One of the things I read, that comes to my emailbox and I read without thinking much about it, has invited readers to send it maps of their world under CoronaVirus. People send in beautiful little maps, colorful, with their house, their yard, their street, the park they can walk to. I have wanted to …
