A lot has changed since I started writing this journal, an answer to Daniel Defoe’s fictional account of the Black Death, Journal of the Plague Year. Arizona made national headlines over the summer with a horrific spike of Covid-19 cases and deaths. People started wearing masks; cases and deaths eased. On October 30, I scheduled […]
First things first: I’m pausing a day or two before publishing the next episodes of Inglorion in the Elysian Fields. I had and insight about grief this morning, and want to spend a bit of time sautéing and simmering it down into the savory helping of Hot Elf that you’ve come to expect. Like bolognese […]
This afternoon, I suddenly felt quite happy. I’ve noticed that both happiness and misery spring from trivial causes, but that it’s wiser to notice the former, and to treat the latter with lordly indifference. Here, then, are my reasons for happiness: I actually enjoy going to El Rio to pick up prescriptions. Today I went […]
