CPB Ecstasy / It’s true, to the point of being a truism, that early reading changes lives. We readers who were ourselves transformed by library story times, bedtime stories, and flashlights smuggled under the covers with which to savor... Read More

UP, UP, AND AWAY Last week, a friend asked me what coping methods I’d plucked from the miasma of Covid-19. Amid the usual suspects—yoga pants, craft cocktails made from home—I might have mentioned my resurrection of a strange... Read More

I wonder if, a year into Covid-19, you find yourself where I am: imposing masks onto memories; starting when people in media, even media from before, don’t observe social distancing guidelines. Amending my travel desires: last... Read More