So much for how I thought March was going to go.
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I’ve put off drafting notes for this third anniversary edition of the advent of COVID-19 in the western world because I couldn’t believe that I really needed to continue to mull over the pandemic.
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The first full-force summer travel season of the post-COVID-restrictions era just wrapped, and I have a few observations.
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I hope I won’t need to write a third anniversary post—but I won’t speak too soon. I didn’t think I’d need to write a first anniversary post, much less one for the second anniversary.
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Achieving full vaccination lifted a lot of my easy excuses for postponing several goal-related activities, especially the ones I rarely consider intrinsically motivating.
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In which I chronicle my experience—straightforward and completely honest—with the Moderna vaccine and booster for COVID-19.
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Here’s to full vaccination and antibody-empowerment by mid-June, after which some of the lagging goals can get a bit more attention.
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I’ve struggled in the first quarter of this year with making progress on one of my creative goals.
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Though I knew I would write a coronavirus diaries anniversary post, I’d thought that one year after the start of the COVID-19 saga would look much different than it does.
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Reviewing my goals progress in December had the same flavor as in previous years, though with the now-familiar 2020 kick of watching the gods laugh at my best-laid plans.
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When it comes to my activity related to 2020 objectives, I finished the month of July feeling a little low in terms of accomplishment.
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My essay about the coronavirus diaries project went live in the Summer 2020 issue of The Johns Hopkins University magazine.
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Research encourages adding a little spice of variety to your life, if you can find it not too far from your comfort zone.
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The coronavirus crisis forced many people to drop pretense and futile attempts at perfection and simply act like real, flawed, often-awkward human beings.
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I have only a few days or even weeks before I’ll need to communicate a bit more in a French-speaking world. And I’ll have to do through voice-muffling masks.
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Eight weeks ago, I started the coronavirus diaries to document the happenings, thoughts, and impressions I had during the pandemic. This marks the final consecutive-week entry.
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This is the seventh and possibly penultimate entry in a diary I’ve posted weekly to document the happenings, thoughts, and impressions I’ve had during the coronavirus pandemic.
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When all this started, I’d predicted we’d be mostly back to normal by now. Others predicted it’d take a couple of weeks longer. All of us were mistaken.
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