Fireversary

March 15th, 2003 was not a terribly notable day in history – Hu Jintao was elected President of the People’s Republic of China, a role he would serve in for ten years, the World Health Organization issued warnings about a pneumonia of unknown cause – SARS. In my personal history, it’s the kind of day …

COVID-19

I have COVID. I’ve been getting COVID tests pretty regularly, starting in mid-December. Several people who I work with have tested positive in the past three weeks, so I felt like it was only a matter of time until I got it. Given that we’ve been in this pandemic for two years, and we’ve been …

Ten Years

I was talking with a co-worker yesterday, and he mentioned that when he did his undergraduate degree in social work, he had to do practicums, and he was working with people who were victims of crimes, mostly domestic violence and abuse. He said that the part that was hard to see, and what eventually made …

Hi?

It’s been a while since I’ve written anything, and WOW, life has changed a lot since the last time I wrote anything here. The last time I actually wrote something and published a post, it was early January. The pandemic was at it’s height, members of congress were the only people who could get vaccinated …