Monthly Archive: April 2020

12
Apr
2020

LONG WEEKEND UPDATE

It’s an extra-long weekend thanks to Easter holidays here in Sweden. We had a half-day on Thursday and Friday off, plus tomorrow. It’s been sunny and warm and very Springy. Anders and I went to the nursery yesterday and bought a lilac tree to replace the dead bush in the front yard next to Clifford the big, red rock, and he planted it yesterday. Now he’s finishing up the rock border at the front of the house. I’ve washed all the outside windows and done laundry and, I think, my US taxes. (I think, because the forms are all new...

04
Apr
2020

A LITTLE BIT OF ORK

I haven’t written a thing, though I think about writing. Everything I could possibly write about seems trite in the face of what the world is facing. Any problem I might have is so overwhelmingly first-world that it would be embarrassing to write about it and to be honest, I don’t have any problems like that. I’m fine. We’re fine. Everyone I know is fine, so far. We’ve been on a rotating work-from-home schedule for 2.5 weeks and I’m officially halfway through Gilmore Girls and have no idea what I’ll watch after that. Westworld season 3? Except how can I...