How This Year’s Seder Differed From Years Past During this year of the plague my family celebrated Passover via Zoom, a video conferencing platform. We connected over twenty households with people ranging in age from eight months to ninety years, from coast to coast and across the Pacific to Japan, where Seder was celebrated at […]
Living in Place
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Awareness Raising April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, part of an annual campaign to raise public awareness about sexual assault and sexual violence. It’s not a month of celebration, but one of education about both the prevalence of sexual violence and about ways to prevent it. Plans change. Our plans to host a writing workshop […]
Why Toilet Paper?
Why have so many people reacted to the threat of the coronavirus by hoarding toilet paper? It’s a respiratory illness, not a gastrointestinal one. Panic and Hoard? I usually buy toilet paper a case at a time, enough to last more than a year even with frequent houseguests who stay for several days. I’d been […]
60+ And Tired of Being Told I’m Old
Are you over sixty and tired of being told that you’re old and at risk of dying from the coronavirus? OVER SIXTY AND O.K. I’m over sixty, I’m healthy, and I’m following best practices for avoiding contamination: staying home, maintaining social distance, and practically scrubbing the skin off my knuckles. ANOTHER TIME PEOPLE TOLD ME […]
Social Distance Without Social Isolation
It’s possible to maintain social distance without suffering social isolation. As a writer, I’ve been negotiating the fine line between solitude and loneliness for years, which has come in handy as the coronavirus is keeping us all at home. Finding community while maintaining social distance requires some creative thinking, a touch of technology and a […]
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