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4/13/2020 – Monday

I stepped outside and noticed the clouds, and the wind, and the oppressive humidity all pooling together. That means a storm is incoming, so I nabbed Keely and we high-tailed it for our morning walk.What I missed, in this old-school weather check, was that we were...

4/12/2020 – Sunday

It’s a gray and quiet morning for an Easter, which is usually chock full of traffic and people milling around the park in their finest outfits by 8 am. Instead there are quiet streets and dark churches, which should be sad or lonely or any number of other distraught...

4/11/2020

This is coming in late because I sat down with my tea post-walk and immediately starting working on a fiction story I have buzzing around my head. Since I’ll take my wins where I can find them, I don’t even feel guilty!It’s been like that today from the start: a...

4/10/2020

I thought we were done with “cold” snaps but the rain yesterday apparently brought in cooler weather — an eternally relative concept, at it was 62°F. But the rain meant that it was barely humid, and the pollen had taken another beating. I forgot my face mask for some...

4/9/2020 – Thursday

This morning was the WFH equivalent of running for the bus, as I slept in ridiculously late (7 am!!!!) and then had to force-march Keely for her walk at a steady pace to get back home in time to log onto MS Teams (our digital WFH leash) by 8 am. Ugh. I don’t know why...

4/8/2020 – Wednesday

I woke up feeling better than I have in a while — I think it is a combination of cutting junk food/sugar out of my diet and getting ahead of my allergies. The grass pollen is off the charts right now, but there is rain expected today that might pound it down for a...