Wednesday, April 8 I awoke Wednesday morning to a disaster: we were out of ground coffee!! #PANIC Thrust into action by crisis, I had to find our strategic reserve of coffee beans (in the pantry), then locate the relevant pieces of the Vitamix for dry-blending, and then figure out how the hell to do… well… this: Success! Coffee! The big… Read more »
Tuesday, April 7 When Tuesday dawned, it meant the girls’ Extended Spring Break was officially over. Hello, First Day of Online School: (Well, first day of official, district-run online school, anyway. The younger girls’ teachers independently tried out some informal online-school stuff during the first two weeks of “break,” while the school district was figuring out what its overall plan… Read more »
First of all, a housekeeping note. I’ve decided to proceed on two tracks with this blog series: I’ll do some contemporaneous “Pandemic Lockdown” posts about a current or recent day (like this one, re: two days ago), and other posts that are more retrospective, looking back on an earlier day or days (like the preceding post about March 13-15). If all goes well,… Read more »
I actually didn’t take a ton of photos or videos in the first very first days of our lockdown. So this post may not be as fun as later ones, as it will be mostly text and screenshots. Once we got a bit further into it, I started thinking more consciously about documenting this lockdown period as a moment in… Read more »
I’ve already covered the broader context, the screenshots, the tweets, the “where were you” moments, etc., of Wednesday 3/11 and Thursday 3/12 in my “Day 0” post. But Thursday late afternoon and evening were actually sort of the beginning of my “Pandemic Lockdown” — i.e., the period of time when I’m staying home from the office, and from most normal… Read more »
I’m planning to do a series of blog posts using photos, videos, etc., to document each day (or maybe eventually each week or whatever) of my experience of the coronavirus crisis and the resulting shelter-in-place situation. I realize that my individual experience isn’t significant in the grand scheme of things. (Though Becky’s experience, as an E.R. nurse, is far more… Read more »
With everything going on in the news — and in our suddenly disrupted and uncertain everyday lives — Becky & I figure that 🎵 what the world needs now … is kittens, sweet kittens. 🎵 So we’ve set up a webcam (#DenverKittenCam) where you can watch our brand-new, adorable, 3-week-old foster kittens. 🙂 The webcam comes & goes, with technical… Read more »
For the life of me, I can’t get this down to letter-to-the-editor length. 🙂 But here’s the latest iteration of my argument: For Democrats who believe it would be disastrous to nominate either a 78-year-old socialist or a 78-year-old billionaire to face President Trump in November, these are worrisome times. A passionate progressive plurality has made Bernie Sanders the favorite… Read more »
No one: Absolutely no one: Me: AMY KLOBUCAT
If party leaders stay on the sidelines . . . Bernie’s momentum, Bloomberg’s money, and the front-loaded primary calendar will overwhelm the race. . . . The stakes are far too high to simply wait, let the process play out, and hope for the best. A disastrous outcome is not just possible, it is highly likely without some form of… Read more »
