Life in the United States in the third summer of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Here we are, almost two years into this and it feels just like it did at the beginning. In late November 2021, another new variant, Omicron, arrived on the global scene. In just over a month, it’s become the dominant strain in the U.S. and is spreading wildly, even among the vaccinated and boosted.
I got my second dose of the vaccine in early April, and have now been fully vaccinated for a few months. We are preparing for a full return to in-person work next month. I’m also starting Ph.D. work in the…
It’s the end of March 2021, and I’ve received one of two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. So far, not much about my lifestyle has changed – we’re all trying to figure out how we move forward safely, but we don’t have all the information we need to guide those decisions.
A diary of pandemic life in 2020.
Hello again! I didn’t die, I just got busy with life. I bought a house in May and got a dog in October, then took a graduate class that nearly killed me. My diet and drinking got pretty unhealthy, so…
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I’ve written in the past about the cold beet soup I discovered on my trip to Lithuania a few years ago. In fact, I have been making a dairy-free version of it for a while. I figured since I’ve got…
Yes, it’s March and I’m just getting my top ten from 2018 together. It was a year, ya’ll, and January tried to kill me. If you’re keeping track, this is the third year of annual recaps: check out 2016 and…
I just finished my second Whole30. I learned a few new things along the way, and plan to test a few things out now that I’m back to semi-normal eating.