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18 April 2020 — The COVID Diaries: Staying Sane in a Time That’s Not
Dear Diary, I’M SO SORRY I FORGOT TO TELL YOU WHICH WIENERS WE LIKED BEST. I wrote to you yesterday about our very official, blind taste test: Nathan’s Beef Franks vs. Hebrew National. Honestly, Hebrew National has been my favorite for years, so I assumed they’d be the winner even though I’ve never had…
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13 April 2020 — The COVID Diaries: Staying Sane in a Time That’s Not
Dear Diary, I spend most of every day worried about the Mommies of Littles.* (*And probably the Daddies of Littles who are the primary caregivers, as well… it’s just that my experience is as a Mommy, so feel free to substitute gender as you see fit.) I think about the Mommies constantly. It is,…
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3,000 March 2020 — The COVID Diaries: Staying Sane in a Time That’s Not
Dear Diary, I made waffles for breakfast last Thursday. I prepared my sourdough sponge the night before. I was awake before All the Children. I made myself a cup of coffee, and I puttered around the kitchen, and I thought, “Oh, this is why Morning People like getting up before everyone else. It’s so quiet…
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21 March 2020 — The COVID Diaries: Staying Sane in a Time That’s Not
Dear Diary, Once upon a time, when I was 13ish, I lived with my family in a remote village in the highlands of Papua, Indonesia. The Dani tribeswomen wore string skirts and no tops and would sit on the ground in a field on market day to sell greens and sweet potatoes, handing a…