Saturday, April 11, 2020 Total Confirmed: 1,777,517 Total Deaths: 108,861 Total Recovered: 365,585 We got our SPCA Exceptionally Subpar Animal Portraits of Sherlock and Nelson. They are so, so bad. And we are crazy about them. Sherlock has a giant nose and no upper part of his mouth, and no teeth…and Nelson…well, Nelson’s ears are enough to make you want to write a book about. So funny. Must’ve been done by either a kid, or Read more…
Friday, April 10, 2020 Total Confirmed: 1,698,626 Total Deaths: 102,773 Total Recovered: 341,589 Enough things happened today for people to write classes about. To write dissertations about. Driving Kids To Become Historians. But some kids will fail because it’s too much information, and some kids will excel because their grandparents told them all about today and it was fascinating. And so many years from now, so many years have passed that they cannot even begin Read more…
Thursday, April 9, 2020 Total Confirmed: 1,601,018 Total Deaths: 95,717 Total Recovered: 323,752 The smoke was a few years ago. So dense it made the hairs on my arms stand up. A roiling brown thickness that caught in my throat and made my clothes stink. We closed the windows and the sun was red and we couldn’t see the mountains anymore. And along with it, a gripping primal fear that bumped up my heart rate. Read more…
Wednesday, April 8, 2020 Total Confirmed: 1,484,811 Total Deaths: 88,538 Somehow Johns Hopkins didn’t post the number of recovered people today. Maybe it doesn’t matter anymore. Maybe it doesn’t matter how many people have tested positive either. There still aren’t enough tests. And people are only admitted when their Lungs Turn to Glass and everyone is treated like they have it anyway. It all seems so pointless. Like Grasping at the Mist. The animals have Read more…
Tuesday, April 7, 2020 Total Confirmed: 1,430,453 Total Deaths: 82,132 Total Recovered: 274,887 They say the weight of a soul is 21 grams. We’ve lost 3,802.47 Pounds Of Souls. It kind of feels like there’s nothing to talk about when we talk on the phone. We all know the same things and we all are thinking the same things and it’s good to have discourse. But if we try to talk about our day to Read more…
Monday, April 6, 2020 Total Confirmed: 1,347,803 Total Deaths: 74,806 Total Recovered: 253,961 We lay in bed, looking at news first thing in the morning. Not the Best Plan Ever. Miss G. sauntered up and started chewing on the corner of my phone. Stop It, I say. But she rubbed her face on it until I couldn’t read the news anymore and somehow she created a hot spot with her chewing and then Aidan had Read more…
Sunday, April 5, 2020 Total Confirmed: 1,274,923 Total Deaths: 69,478 Total Recovered: 239,900 People are feeling like we should really focus on the fact that almost a quarter of a million people have recovered. I don’t feel like that’s a celebration considering the number of confirmed cases. As someone who recently discovered she finds comfort in numbers, I find little comfort in that particular one. I read a meme that says – I miss the Read more…
Saturday, April 4, 2020 Total Confirmed: 1,203,099 Total Deaths: 64,773 Total Recovered: 229,309 I had another invention fail because apparently I Can’t Math. It was cold and windy outside and we went to Home Depot and stood in a line 6 feet apart marked by a roped off area with yellow X’s taped to the asphalt in the parking lot. Only so many people were allowed in the store at a time. They let people Read more…
Friday, April 3, 2020 Total Confirmed: 1,099,389 Total Deaths: 58,900 Total Recovered: 214,459 I started a list online of stuff to request from Raley’s since they have the shortest time frame for getting groceries out to your car. It’s only A-Two-Day-Wait. I feel sad today. It feels like we are alternately in imminent danger and in a safe bubble. It will never happen here, and it could happen at any second. And it already is Read more…
Thursday, April 2, 2020 Total Confirmed: 1,015,709 Total Deaths: 53,068 Total Recovered: 200,348 I finished my paint by number just in time because Karen sent me a tattoo adult coloring book, so now I have a new project. Besides, my thumb is bruised anyway from opening and closing all those little paints over and over again. Quarantine Injuries. There are crazy amounts of people in the hillsides now. And they all have dogs. And I Read more…