School's out through April 30. I thought I would be more excited. I wanted more time. But the shock of it actually put me into a tiny state of agitation. I t...

Churches went online (except for a few that stayed open), and our family rested. And chattered. Falcon woke up at 8 and talked to me almost non-stop until 1....

Since January, I've faithfully attended longsword class Saturday mornings after teaching a belly dance class. Today, I chose not to attend due to droopy kids...

The Little House on the Praire series and Camus' The Plague give you a distant sense of what living through deprivation or plague is like, but neither of the...