It's been more than 35 weeks since the world seemingly came to a screeching halt because of the Coronavirus and so it feels like the last 8 months (and potentially even more) have been lost. The countless big and little changes to our daily lives including the curtailing of school and college for millions , the move to work-from-home for anyone that can, the end to dining in restaurants, going to the theatre, the postponement and cancellation of myriad social events, vacations, and trips, crowd limits in stores, and the list goes on and on, have all made for the weirdest and, if I'm honest, the most unsettling year. Add to the heap: mask-wearing (becoming oddly politicized) , social distancing, no handshaking, Zoom (teleconference) calls for work and home life, household paper shortages, diligent hand washing, ubiquitous hand sanitizers, and most significantly the anxiety that comes from constant concerns about your health and the health of others. Especially sad are the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. FINALLY, cap it all off with a presidential election, the 59th since our country's founding and a particularly polarizing one, and 2020 is epically strange.
I'm going to endeavor to post more often, as my intention was to record some of the details of this unique time in the world. Of course, many of these things I'd just as soon forget but others have been worth chronicling. I'll see you soon.
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