Tag: coronavirus

• Stop Telling Me to Have Fun in Quarantine

  If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: I never set out to be a stay-at-home mom. But with the kids’ school closed until at least the end of May, I’m staring down the barrel of another few weeks sheltering in place with my kids. Not every mom is muttering “FML” under…
• Alcohol Sales Are Up 55% and Honestly I’m Surprised It’s Not More

  CNN reports that “booze sales are booming as people stockpile alcohol,” but I have questions. For example: why didn’t I think of that? Also: how does one make a Mai Tai?
• An Exquisite Inconvenience

  I knew this quarantine was going to be sketchy. I’m not usually a full-time stay-at-home mom, and I never (and I mean NEVER) set out to be, but here we are. I’m lucky because my husband is working from home – emphasis on the working – so technically he’s here too, but the burden of…
• Love In The Time Of Coronavirus

  I’m writing this from my couch, where the imprint of my rear is really taking shape in one of the cushions. I’ve been perched here for many (too many?) hours over this past weekend listening to Wolf Blitzer and his gaggle of CNN personalities report on the quasi-apocalyptic state of affairs in which we seem…